Love

When you live abroad, you experience family life in vacation-mode snapshots while everyone else lives their normal routine. Your visits home become these condensed periods of trying to catch up on months or years of daily life you've missed. It's a different kind of loss—subtle but constant.

Talking about love is one of the grand traditions of being alive: what it means to fall in and out of it, how to keep it, how to grieve it, how to live for ourselves and toward another .1