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I really enjoyed this post. I also want to say I think you have one of the best newsletter names out there.

I grew up in New York and we definitely didn't have a lot of money, and certainly not enough to go on an "official family vacation" but my parents took advantage of the city and hustled my younger brother and I to every museum, gallery, park, library, festival and cultural event in the five boroughs and NY has a lot to offer in that department.

I was also struck by your visit to Argentina. My family lives abroad and my children see extended family very rarely. Your time in Argentina sounds like a gift! And yes plan another trip to the Delaware - or close your eyes and pick another place on the map and go.

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Great post!

We had some great holidays when I was growing up, but the best time I had was a weekend trip my parents and I made to visit my brother for his 21st birthday. I remember it as a wonderfully happy time with my family. We’re still making memories now, for which I’m deeply grateful. :D

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Aug 31, 2022Liked by Pablo Andreu

I absolutely love this article, Pablo. When I was younger my family drove to the beach every summer, but I was always a little jealous of my friends who flew to cool places around the US or went on cruises. My childhood dream was to go to Disney World; years of watching Nickelodeon had made me realllly want to ride the Tower of Terror. I finally went with friends on Christmas break during my first year of college--my first time on an airplane!--and it was everything I had dreamed of and more, even at 18 years old instead of eight.

Your story about your trip to Argentina is beautiful. What precious memories of time with your family there.

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Beautiful memories. There's always that strange feeling, I don't want to use the word bittersweet, when you look back at a point in your life when you were being a dependably selfish child while your understanding family gave you the grace to do so and suffered silently.

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Thanks for sharing your stories, I really enjoy your writing. (And I loved Space Mountain as a kid! I went twice in a row after my first experience on it.)

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We didn't go on many vacations when I was younger -- or I don't remember them if we did -- but in the last few years of being a teenager and even into my 20's, we went on a family vacation nearly every summer. I think it was mi mami's way of showing her family that she'd been successful at work. She rarely bought herself things, but we went somewhere every year.

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