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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: Breaking Personal Boundaries, My Path to the PhD

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"When I was first accepted into the PhD by research program in the UK, I had mixed feelings, mainly because I was about to pursue a career that I didn’t have the heart for, and partially because I would need to explore yet another new culture, country, and environment."
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