Recently, I met a man who had spent more than five years in isolation at a prison in the Boston suburb of Walpole, Massachusetts, not far from my home.

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"It's a chance for me to come and get some games and it isn't too far away from my home, " he added.

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Like many soldiers this year, I will be spending my Thanksgiving holiday far from home and family.

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As far as I could tell from my crisis visit home (Lucy smelling of patchouli and sobbing as she crushed me in her suntanned arms), the Bishop was prepared to bow his head and take whatever the heavens had prepared for him.

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My nephew was drafted, spent two years far away from home living in a motel and struggling to get a ball career started and got nowhere.

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Although I hope to follow in my teacher's footsteps, my path for now is blocked by the uncertainty of living far from home, by a war that has driven me here, by tuition costs in Jordan that are prohibitively expensive.

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My heart bleeds as I think of her sitting in some police cell far away from home, perhaps alone and without anybody to talk to, and with nothing to read.

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Oh, what pleasure to plug in my three-pin British plug the other evening in Inner Mongolia, so very far from home.

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After getting in touch with my family later that night, they assured me that everything was fine at home, far from New York, Washington, DC and Pennsylvania.

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My much older siblings would return home from college, usually with interesting new friends from far-off places who could be relied on to entertain and dazzle me.

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