I went to Amsterdam and met the coolest girl from Israel, who I then traveled with to Paris and Switzerland and Berlin. I took a two week German course in Frankfurt. Those were some of the best days of my entire life. I won’t go into all the details of what I experienced in my first month or so of the trip except to say that it was AMAZING. I left in August for a three month trip backpacking across Europe. I spent months planning every little detail, saving money, and getting excited about this new adventure in my life. I was devastated to the core, but when I picked myself up off the floor, I decided that I wasn’t going to let this ruin my trip to Europe. My boyfriend broke my heart in March and we broke up. I grew up in a very small town in Georgia all of my life and this was my big chance to see the world. This trip was going to be about getting closer to him, visiting opera houses across Europe and meeting new people. I was completely in love with him and honestly thought we’d get married someday. When I first started planning the trip I thought I’d be mostly going to hang out with my boyfriend of three years, an officer in the Army stationed in Germany. When I was 23 years old, I decided to go on a backpacking trip across Europe. I poured a lot of what I experienced during a very dark time in my life into this novel, and it was beautiful and difficult and cathartic and heartbreaking all at once. In 2013, I took a little detour from the genre I’d been writing so that I could tell a story that was intensely personal to me.
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