Critical theorist Walter Benjamin once distinguished between two types of storytellers: one is a keeper of the traditions; another is the one who has journeyed afar and tells stories of other places. But there is a third, and that is the exile. The exile, with a gaze that is obscured by distance and time, may not always be precise in terms of

We’re both returning to the site of something that shifted our lives. The end of her great adventure. The beginning of mine.

so much of travel is sharing an experience. And we weren’t sharing the same experience anymore.”