University and early jobs were behind me and I was a young guy with the urge to get away. Taking a year out was an option I’d often scoffed at, but I had to rethink relationships as well as my career options.
I opted for an open-ended trip to Europe, starting with Amsterdam. I would stay wherever I was while I was happy, moving on if my mood changed. I was searching, partly to learn about sexuality but for what else, I didn’t know.
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