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Podcast: Down with Bowne (The Uncut Version)
Episode: The Tower in Pisa Finally Tumbles: Hermits and mystics may love time alone, but not this lonely traveler
Description: Photo by the author. First published in Age of Awareness: https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-tower-in-pisa-finally-tumbles-a95a7830ab42?sk=dc521e58aa98ed180ce4c813f34358e1
Parting May Not Be Such Sweet Sorrow
We had separated in Pisa, Italy because we were driving each other crazy.
Laura had taken the train to London to stay with a “friend.” This was August of 1990. I was twenty-one. Three weeks traveling with me through Europe was more than enough.
The story of Europe and the further troubles in England is a miniseries mock-u-melodrama for anot...