25 Americans You’ll Meet Abroad
| March 27, 2017
The Comparison Commentator
Need someone to keep a tally of how different this place is from America? Look no farther because this person can write a book on it! Everything they encounter is somehow not quite how it is at home, which they observe with the gentlest sneer. In small doses, comparison can be fun and hilarious. But this person just doesn’t know when to let it go.
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