On Election Day 2016, I was in Myanmar with my husband.

I don’t know why we scheduled it that way, but we did.

Sarah Lofgren
3 min readNov 3, 2020

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Results came in through the morning, while we woke up and got ready to go. By noon the deal was done. We walked around Bagan zombie-eyed and I stared at the other tourists we passed, wondering if they were Americans. It was lonely carrying that stress around in a country so far…

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