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The subtler risks of travel carry rich rewards (with Carl Hoffman)

Deviate

CHAPTER

What Is It Like to Live in America?

"Life is incredibly slow. Like, mind-numbingly, for a visitor like me," he says. "If you want to hear music, you have to play the music or sing the song." In Asmat, there were about 20 people living in one 600 square foot house that was light at 4:30 every morning. The women would get in canoes and go down to the ocean where they'd catch shrimp and small crustaceans.

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