The second post. Halfway through a volunteer posting in West Timor. Halfway through a life being redesigned.

The shine wears off. Even when you're exactly where you wanted to be. A woman hands a stranger a red dragon fruit from her garden, and somehow that's enough to turn a whole day around.

Shelley McPhee reads her essay The Second Half aloud.

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