What if these feelings of never quite fitting in don't go away, no matter how long I live here? Does that mean I've made some sort of mistake -- that I didn't try hard enough to integrate, or that I simply chose the wrong place in the world to live?
Read MoreThe perceived prevalence of cigarette smoking in Germany has always baffled me. Germans are model citizens in so many regards. So why, in God's name, do they smoke cigarettes like it's 1950 and lung cancer isn't a thing yet?
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