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I realized just now, as I sat there trying to fill out the insurance valuation, that this is the third time I have moved over the Atlantic, and the fourth time I have moved from one country to another, and yet I have still not realized that the most sensible way to handle this kind of thing is to burn all your possessions and start from scratch in the new country.

And why does the valuation form have only a single item for books? Most of the value of what I'm sending is books.