Originally featured in Peace Corps Thailand Magazine https://pctmagazine.org/2019/07/22/on-trusting-a-fart-and-getting-over-myself/

I’m sitting in a hotel in Korat. It has a rain shower, air conditioning, and no geckos, and I feel well and truly alone (until one of my...

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