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What gives us the desire to travel

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My high school friend, Tom Lisenby, has introduced me to a homespun master of the short personal essay, Leon Hale.  Mr. Hale writes a column of personal commentary three times a week for the Houston Chronicle.  The New York Times, in an editorial about Mr. Hale’s personal essays, “numbered Hale among the top three columnists writing today in America.”

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