“Buzz Kill” Chapter 13. A Harrowing Road Trip to My First Home Exchange
A life-threatening road trip leads to a life-altering vacation in Salt Lake City
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I write real-life stories that focus on the amazing, funny, heart-wrenching, or absurd situations in life that stay with us—because we learned lessons, or the people we encountered made an indelible impression on us that we remember years later.
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