“Did you book your flight yet?” Anna Gasser asks over the phone. It’s late September. 

“Not yet, Anna,” I reply. “I can’t really justify spending the money to go ride park jumps on a glacier in Switzerland anymore.”

“That’s not a reason, book your damn flight and get over here,” she says. 

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