End-of-Term Exam (4)

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In my previous life, I had the chance to travel by train.

It was when I was doing a fellowship in the United States.

Normally, flying would have been the obvious choice, but at the time, I had only a month left in my training.

I couldn't come all the way to the U.S. and spend all my time at the hospital, so I chose the train instead of a plane.

That two-night, three-day train trip ended up being a pretty nice memory.

Aside from feeling like my arteries were getting clogged with fat in real time because of the meals, it was one of the most luxurious trips of my life.

That was because every other trip I'd taken had been awful.

Like making a day trip all the way to Tsushima to catch a runaway junior,

or getting tricked into volunteering at an overseas disaster site with the promise of steak...