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job, at a cafe in Bronte, and it's good to hear of her dream to do well at
school and enter a university course that teaches stage performance
and communications. As we run, I tell them all about the places I've
seen and the people I've met along the way. I am so blessed to have
the support of my family and to have my children here with me in
Chile sharing in my run and learning, along with me, that nothing is
impossible.
The scenery here is a carbon copy of a part of Canada that I
ran through, with rivers flowing from mountains and plantations of
pine trees. There are no black bears here, but they do have huge flies
whose bites are painful, like Canada's infamous march flies. This is
an agricultural area, with citrus trees, corn and grapes being grown.
Chile has a population of about 17 million—not many for such a
huge country—so the people have plenty of space, and the popula-
tion is spread out.
Chileans seem to me to be happy with their lives, in stark con-
trast to the Peruvians. Their homes are more permanent: made of
bricks and timber rather than makeshift thatching. The cars are all
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