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As I walk into the packed gym, the crowd assembled for the holiday concert is buzzing. I am overwhelmed by diverse feelings: excitement about seeing my students and their families from the class I taught over a year ago, happiness to be back in a school in which I have so many fond memories, tinges of mourning for people I no longer see daily and a place I no longer work, nervousness that I am intruding on an event in which I no longer play a part and that I am, perhaps, overstaying my welcome.
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Kathy, K. (2015). Beginning a Journey Together. In: Living as Mapmakers. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-361-2_6
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