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Battling traffic was part of the hustle and bustle of my experiences with city life. As I drove the thirty minutes it took me to get out of the city and onto the highway, with my car packed to the brim and a U-haul trailer behind me, I was venturing into a new career path as a beginning teacher. I enjoyed the two and a half hour drive from the city into the country.
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Dorval, J. (2013). Parents. In: Portals of Promise. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-386-7_8
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