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First: I gasped when I saw the title because Rivers and Roads is one of my favourite songs.

Second: This was beautifully captured! You described a lot of my emotions that I have been trying to grasp for years, about the same topics and the same search for home. As of now, I have found home in two of my best friends, a person and my dog. I certainly have hopes for which city I hope to find home in, but maybe that is more to do with the person I hope to visit that city with, instead of the city itself.

Again, thank you for your words <3.

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hehe thank you so much! it's inspired by a favorite playlist of esje from almost a decade ago, which was inspired by the very song you mentioned :)

also that's beautiful! and i totally agree and a thought i want to explore as well. i know that home can and sometimes is simply other people, but is it too much to ask for a city to embody such? 🥹

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Your writing changes me. Never stop writing please.

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britta 🥹 you are the absolute sweetest thank u so much

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soooo beautiful as always 🤍🤍

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appreciate you always!

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this was such a beautiful piece; i visited Taiwan a little over a year ago and it hasn’t left my mind ever since; it’s the quiet kind of familiar and yet strange - that makes me want to have more of it; even if it is held in fragments.

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i totally get you, and i just can't seem to get enough of it -- as i'm visiting again for the 3rd time this year next week hehe

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esje these were the most beautiful and heartfelt fragments. your heart is so big you can leave pieces in all of these places 🤍

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ily love and appreciate you always!!

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i love your writing so much, your stories of home, the different places and meanings, it's so beautiful to read

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you are the sweetest 🥹

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Thanyou for writing this esje, as a south Asian queer individual who has though born & grew up in India,my dad had to move a lot within the country to

different cities very frequently. And I have never felt home in any one city. And I recently moved to a completely new city again for my college. Born in a

country where each state has it's own different culture & language, it's always difficult to fit in and to understand what is home for me has been a long journey. And I still don't think I have found my

home, but I am glad I am not the only one ❤❤

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