HeyJaredA Platypus Life
Stories from the life between cultures, religions, and languages of my platypus-like family. Notes on what I read along the way.
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When Do We Become Adults? (opens the original)
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“The day a kid puts the kettle on and has their first mate when there’s no one else at home—that’s the moment they’ve discovered they have a soul. Or they’re scared to death, or madly in love, or something: but it’s not just another day.” Hernán Casciari (my translation)Until I was 25 years old, I didn’t drink mate.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1585744259332-111384f5def9?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&f
Toronto, It's Not You. It's Me. (opens the original)
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When I was growing up in Argentina, I used to imagine what it would be like to experience a FIFA World Cup from one of the host countries. Now that I live in Canada and finally have the chance, the experience is nothing like I imagined.Ever since France ‘98, the first World Cup I can remember, every four years I’d watch the tournament on television and think about what an incredible experience it must be for the journalists and fans who traveled to follow their national teams. They got to try fo
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