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Dealing with...withdrawal.

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     Well, it has been about a month and a half since I have been home from Britain and I am having serious withdrawals.  (It also doesn't help that at the moment I am watching 'North & South', a film based in England...).      I have been thinking a lot about what I learned on my trip, sort of as a way to say goodbye to Great Britain.  Obviously it has taken me a long time to think of exactly what I want to say. :)      One thing I miss greatly is the hustle and bustle of London life.  The more time that passed while I lived there, the more I felt like it had become my home.  Brooke and I often joked that Soho was our place.  I also loved the connection I felt with Scotland because of my family ties to it.  When we went we to the Battlefield of Culloden, I was overcome with emotion when I thought that MY past ancestors had fought for freedom right where I was standing.  The thing that I miss the most, however, would have to be the countless opportunities I had to sha