…being multiplied

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As my wife and I were making our final preparations for our trip this afternoon, I received an automated phone call from the airline informing us of a delay. This delay (of course) caused a cascade of consequences: we are now flying into Madrid through Paris, as opposed to directly from Atlanta; We will be arriving in Madrid in the afternoon rather than the morning which means we will be missing a very important appointment with a lawyer. But this delay has also caused an existential situation worthy of some of the better episodes of Start Trek. Thanks to the wonders of technology and moderately helpful travel agents, we are now booked on two different flights at roughly the same time. Have we inadvertently just caused a rift in the temporal flow of space-time?

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…preparing to travel

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My wife and I will be leaving soon to Spain almost two years since our last visit to her homeland. This is usually about the time that the nervous excitement kicks in, the so-much-to-do anxiety. While those apprehensive and anticipative jitters are there, there is also something different about this trip that neither of us can do anything to prepare for.

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