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I met my wife, Cece, in 2014 at a music-video shoot in Austin. A mutual friend invited a group of us, we got talking, and we had our first date the next night. Loading audio narration… Two weeks later, she flew to Australia. After nine months of long-distance, she moved…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Alyssa Bolaños, a 35-year-old creative freelancer living in Medellín, Colombia. It’s been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… My husband, two sons —who were four and five at the time — and I moved from Orlando to Medellín, Colombia,…