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CHASING ADAM

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ADAM JACOBS - FIRST DIARY ENTRY

August to September 2023

I've always had this idea of what “coming of age” meant but could never quite articulate the feeling. In 2022, my two friends and I cycled up to Natures Valley in Gqeberha (Portedge of the earth and everything just clicked. I have chosen to call my trip “Chasing Adam”. It's a play on chasing happiness and I believe the only true way to find solitude and liberate the mind is digging deep into the dark corners of one's psyche.

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