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The modern is predictable they've seen in half the end. And one story that always kind of captures my imagination.

The street's lost culture.

And you're listening to Kearning cultures.

I'll always have this issue when I travel.

Last month, we hosted a listening party in Dubai for one of our earlier episodes,

Where the Heart is, which is a story about growing up in a place different from where your parents were raised.

And what that means in terms of where home is for you.

And even though we released that episode last spring,

we hadn't actually hosted a listening party in Dubai for it. And Dubai is exactly why we started

researching that story in the first place. And then a few weeks ago, our friends at Gulf Photo

Plus were hosting a photography exhibition called No Place Like Home.

And it was too perfect of a compliment for our episode. So we gather together, about 50 of us

on a Wednesday night, at GPP's Warehouse and El Circal Avenue. We dimmed the lights, played the

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