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1. In "Coming Home" Bryson says he is "gamely assessing" the concept of not being able to go home again. What circumstances took him away from the United States in the 1970s? How did he spend the following two decades in England? What is his reaction on returning to the United States in 1996?

Bryson was traveling in England in the 70's as a young man out of college when he landed a job at a British newspaper. He remained in that field for many years. While spending over twenty years in England, he married an English nurse and fathered four children. He returned to the United States and settled in Hanover, New Hampshire, mainly because it was a nice college town. He finds the return to the United States a "surprisingly unsettling business."

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