And then Rose gave up on doctors, stopped taking her meds, and we went home.

It wasn't defiance, it wasn't nihilism, it was an easy decision for her, just one day.

Well, we gave it a go, and then she was done.

Without the side effects of all the different medications, she was a bit more like her normal

self.

Still weak, still dying, but she could get out of bed again, go about her daily life a bit.

A few weeks after we got home from Glasgow, she wanted to go away again.

One last holiday, she said.

One I should have taken years ago.

She wanted to go to former Columbia.

Before the reckoning, the Americas were divided up into a bunch of different countries.

Of course you know this.

I'm sure everyone in development centers has taught about what the world was like before

the reckoning and how important it is that it doesn't return to that way of being.

These two continents were brutally colonized, the northern half by former England and

the southern by former Spain and Portugal, and then there was migration between the two.

It's an interesting thing to think about, at least I think so.

The society tries so hard to make sure that we don't lose our cultures, even without borders,

without countries, but we just learn about them in school.

Rose grew up in a childhood center surrounded by other children from the American continent

with a wide variety of different cultural heritages.

You are Colombian, she was told.

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