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From Cold Concrete to Crisp Air

From Cold Concrete to Crisp Air

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“This wasn’t my idea,” Donovan admits, yet the decision tomove across the world reshaped everything: his identity, his career, and hisfamily’s future.

This episode, on the podcast A Stranger, a suitcase and aStory, is about a man who didn’t plan tomigrate, but found something better than he imagined.

Donovan had built a life in South Africa: a career, a home,a community. Migration wasn’t his idea, it was his wife’s. But love, trust, and family meant stepping into the unknown, together.

What followed wasn’t easy. Uprooting. Rebuilding. Feelinglost in a place that was supposed to be a fresh start. But with time and a fewkey constants like family, faith, and even a familiar couch—Donovan found hisfooting.

And what started as resistance became resilience.

This is a story about letting go of certainty, leaning intochange, and discovering that starting over doesn’t mean losing yourself. It canmean finding more: more freedom, more safety, more space to breathe, and more moments that matter.

Most of all, Donovan reminds us:

Keep an open mind. Because sometimes, the life you didn’tplan becomes the one you were meant to live.

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