Candace Rose Rardon | Longreads | October 2018 | 12 minutes (3,184 words)

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Read Candace Rardon’s companion piece from July 2017, “Home Is a Cup of Tea.”

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Candace Rose Rardon is a writer and illustrator based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her work has appeared on National Geographic’s Intelligent Travel site, BBC Travel, and in Lonely Planet travel anthologies, among others. You can also find Candace on Instagram, where she shares a new illustrated story from around the world every week.

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