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"She took my hands and led me in, and showed me a picture of my brother and I with her and her husband she'd put on her wall." It was an intensely emotional moment, he says. "I'd been going for a year and a half without being recognized by anyone I met, and that does something to you mentally I was always moving on. I'd say, 'hello' to someone in the evening and 'goodbye' the next morning." Having kayaked the entire coast of Norway and hiked Hadrian's Wall in the UK, Loken is no stranger to solitary living. He realized he had to get into his sleeping bag by about 4 pm every day to make it through the winters in North China, after a close call when he nearly passed out repeatedly during a mountainside blizzard in Shanxi. He only survived because he retained the wherewithal to faint with his head between his knees, causing blood to rush to his brain. That revived him for long enough to pitch his tent and insert himself into his sleeping bags, he recalls.
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