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Chapter 17: Solitude and Painkillers
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Chapter 17: Solitude and Painkillers

Why pilgrims fail.

Adam Nathan
Apr 13, 2023
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Chapter 17: Solitude and Painkillers
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After a week in Spain, my backwater path from Arles and northeastern Spain joins the famed route from St-Jean-Pied-de-Port, and it’s like coming off a country road onto the interstate. The flow of pilgrims coming down from southwestern France is probably fifty times the number of pilgrims coming from the east. The nightly life in the auberges now settle…

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