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Sunday night. November 22, 2010. 12:09 am.

Enigma- Return to Innocence on repeat

I leave for Santiago in the morning at 8:30 am. My host brother Alexi is taking Susan y yo en la manana.

I’ve been writing thank you letters to all the people that have staked their love onto my heart.

When I first decided to come down here and do this program it never crossed my mind that leaving would be hard, especially this hard. I thought I would finish up and move forward, back to my life in the State’s. Nope, not the case. I had to tell my host dad goodbye tonight because he will already be at work when we leave. Tough. I have to tell my host mother, the essence of kindness and love goodbye tomorrow. Even tougher.

Thankyou, thankyou Punta Arenas. You have given me perspective on life, love and what it means to appreciate … everything. You changed my insides, that’s some pretty powerful Patagonian magic if I do say so myself.

“It’s not the beginning of the end, it’s the return to yourself… the return to innocence”- I’m not even embarrassed.

Goodbye Patagonia, you captured my heart.