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We Never Really Left the Rooftop (opens the original)
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It was the summer of 1995, and my friend and I were in Santo Domingo to learn Spanish and volunteer with a Catholic mission. We spent our days alongside other teenagers dredging a river, picking plantains, and doing whatever work needed to be done, getting dirty and tired and attempting to communicate in Spanish that was probably much worse than we realized.One evening, as the sun was setting, the two of us climbed onto the roof of the apartment building where we were staying with our guitars. S
Monkey Road Revisited (opens the original)
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It's where I drank my first beerIt's where I found JesusWhere I wrecked my first carI tore it all to piecesI learned the path to HeavenIs full of sinners and believersLearned that happiness on EarthAin't just for high achieversI've learned, I've come to knowThere's life at both ends of that red dirt road— Brooks & Dunn, “Red Dirt Road”I never had a red dirt road. I had Monkey Road in Fort Laude
Monkey Road Revisited (opens the original)
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It's where I drank my first beerIt's where I found JesusWhere I wrecked my first carI tore it all to piecesI learned the path to HeavenIs full of sinners and believersLearned that happiness on EarthAin't just for high achieversI've learned, I've come to knowThere's life at both ends of that red dirt road— Brooks & Dunn, “Red Dirt Road”I never had a red dirt road. I had Monkey Road in Fort Laude
Infinity Pools Are a Lie (opens the original)
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Infinity pools are beautiful. You’re sitting there in Miami or Cancun, looking out over the ocean, and the edge of the pool seems to disappear into the horizon. For one glorious moment, you think, This must be what heaven feels like.Then Chad from Iowa cannonballs next to you, and suddenly you’re back to reality with chlorine in your piña colada.Infinity pools are a lie. Somewhere behind every infinity pool is a concrete wall, six pool pumps, and a maintenance guy wondering why the filter is mak
Infinity Pools Are a Lie (opens the original)
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Infinity pools are beautiful. You’re sitting there in Miami or Cancun, looking out over the ocean, and the edge of the pool seems to disappear into the horizon. For one glorious moment, you think, This must be what heaven feels like.Then Chad from Iowa cannonballs next to you, and suddenly you’re back to reality with chlorine in your piña colada.Infinity pools are a lie. Somewhere behind every infinity pool is a concrete wall, six pool pumps, and a maintenance guy wondering why the filter is mak
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