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Spent these last few weeks visiting family in Puerto Rico and North Carolina.  On my last plane back to San Francisco, I sat by a couple who had just eloped and were on their way to teach in China. They met at a small private Baptist college in Virginia from which they'd graduated and moved on with their lives, then re-connected years later on Facebook. On a boring late night, they stumbled on FB chat and caught up with each other and all their relationship failures. In the meanwhile, another college friend posted an opportunity to teach abroad on his wall. And before you know it he was saying, " let's get married and move to China! " "I still can't believe I'm married and on my way to China," the woman told me. Rewind a couple of weeks before, on a plane ride to New York, I sat by an ambassador and theologian who speaks eight languages that people hire to make translations from ancient scripts. He told me he'd always been drawn to spiritual