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Going Out To Come Home by Stacy Bare

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The night was cold, and where the moon and stars shone around patches of clouds, they were incredibly bright. There was no ambient light out here. I was standing on a half-finished patio attached to a half-finished house in an otherwise empty summer-herding village. It was early March, months before the village would be occupied.…

Going Out To Come Home by Stacy Bare

Stacy Bare climbs in Angola with Alex Honnold and skis the tallest peak in Iraq. The Adventure Not War founder reflects on this for Volume 12. #readthezine

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