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Episode 9: Coming Home – Part 1
Wednesday morning, last day in Takoradi. Eighty-eight hours and thirty-six minutes left until my new life greets the old in an exuberant wash of tears, laughter, and African style. I can’t pin down my emotions. Excitement, fear, sadness... but mostly I feel numb.
Green and red outside my window. Green trees, palms grasses, shrubs and red, red dirt. Even the tall bus seats are olive green. I’m lounging across three empty ones on a bus headed to Accra. The book