one may look to the principle of stranger in a strange land: the tendency of novel adventures, their unfamiliar surroundings, and foreign faces to create an aura surrounding even the most elementary events if the shape of european toilets is remarkable, perhaps even worthy of sending pictures to friends, then how does one describe a human connection that transmuted the caterpillars hibernating in my gut into feisty butterflies in my stomach with their powerful wings they ascended my esophagus exiting my throat in an eruption of violent vibrations













