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Around January of my senior year of high school, my mother told me she thought I should consider taking a gap year. The term “gap year” always made images of traveling to far-off places for months at a time swirl around in my brain. But I had never really entertained the idea. Travel was expensive, and gap years didn’t really sound that beneficial. Also, I liked the idea of going to college. Why would I want to delay that?  But then I began to reflect on the past few y… Read more