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Compare And Contrast Touching My Father's Soul By Broughton Coburn

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Although Matt is way different from me (I don't climb mountains), we are in some way similar. When he first went across the world, he did not know many people or anything about that place. Of course, I didn't move across the world but I still struggled when I moved here. I did not know anybody and when you are socially awkward, it doesn’t help at all. I connected with Matt a little bit in that way since he felt pretty out of place in the new environment. But, after a while there climbing, he discovered it was not as bad as he thought and started to feel more comfortable there. He found his safe spot which was up in the mountains and I for one needed to find a space like that.

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