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I Don’t Really Like People — Am I an Alien?

Lessons in humanity, solitude and alien ancestry

Alien-Human Hybrid https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Alien&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=Go&type=image

“I don’t really like people” was the reply my 30-year-old daughter gave me when I asked her what she’d learned after six months of solo travel.

She had just returned from her latest adventures in India, Nepal and then Spain to walk ‘The Camino de…