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Come Hell or High Water
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Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn It’s rare that I know in advance what I’ll be doing on any given day. We live on a finca—the Ecuadorian word for “farm”—and as you can imagine, there’s always something that decides for you what your day will look like. Now, about the term “farm”—that’s maybe an exaggeration. We have […]
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