At The Bend In The Road

On the Camino de Santiago, a female pilgrim walks in solitude—utterly vulnerable, utterly free. By Aube Rey Lescure

Her name is Denise Thiem. She is a forty-one-year-old Asian American woman from Arizona. In the picture on the flyer, her face is framed by jet-black hair. She sticks out her tongue as she rests on a stone bench, a turquoise backpack nestled at her feet like a patient dog, waiting to get up and go.

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