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“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

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I was stranded in Tokyo for 24 hours. I did 3 things right, but made 2 mistakes I'll avoid on all future trips.

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I went to Costa Rica for the first time. From power outages to getting stranded in the ocean, it was one heck of a trip.

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At my heaviest, I weighed 360 pounds, which got in the way of my job as a firefighter. I lost weight by paying attention to what I ate.

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“I don’t want to be here anymore”: They tried to self-deport, then got stranded in Trump’s America

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