Here I was, a temporary traveller on a spinning globe, alone yet connected to every single one of these: a piece in a puzzle of a journey whose design I would probably never know, but whose path had restored my sense of the whole, in the ruins of Banteay Chhmar.

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But I just had an intuitive feeling that starting down that path, you know, would've led to my end in one way or the other.

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"My responsibility, and I know that I am being watched beyond our borders, is to reorient Europe on the path of growth and job creation, " Mr. Hollande told supporters on Sunday.

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