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Some Musings on One Way Tickets

I've done a good bit of traveling in my life, and there's a lot of excitement wrapped up in an airplane ticket that means going somewhere new, or somewhere familiar and beloved.  Usually I've had round-trip tickets - going somewhere exciting, but then returning to every day life.  Lately, however, my tickets have been one-way.  It started with leaving Boston for West Virginia - a one-way ticket to join my family for Christmas.  Then there was the one-way flight out here to California for my farm internship, not being sure where I'd fly back to when it was over.  And I've just bought three more one-way tickets for early June when I'm done here at the farm.  One to LA, a second to Boston, a third to the Adirondacks.  And of course, there will be the all-important one-way ticket to Benin.  There's something exciting and special about having switched to a one-way ticket mode of travel.  It means that there isn't really an every day life for me to return to,