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There are many ways in which one

could interpret this situation: the

positive way, in receiving lot of

exposure that will be helpful in the

future but also help and the negative
way, as in making friends I would

never see again and forging emotional

bonds which I was forced to sever

once we moved away. It wasn’t easy.

However, it would be wrong to just focus

on the negatives as the last time when I

went to London, I ended up falling in love
with the place.

I loved the rain, the cozy Christmas eves, those starry silent

nights I would spend gazing outside my window and

listening to the whistling wind as a car passed by. It was not

just a charming place to me but also a place for which made

me understand the meaning of powerful friendship. It was

where I met my first best friend, someone I am still in touch
with. I remember how she would go out of her way every

morning to come pick me up so that we could walk to school
together.

Time seems so much more valuable in retrospect, when we

look back at every moment that made us smile. Some

people believe that the past is dead, however every place
that I have ever visited still lives in me. Such, I know from

the core of my being, is the true beauty of a cherished

memory.