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Just as Liz's friend Giulio told her in Italy that Rome's word is SEX, Liz has found her own word, ANTEVASIN. This means "one who lives at the border," which is just like Liz. Liz cannot decide what her place in life is supposed to be, so she lives on the border of everything, trying to find the right place, while also trying to get closer to God. Another discovery Liz has made came from another friend, one from the Ashram, who told her she should stop looking for answers to her questions in the world, but rather in her center place where God lives within her. She decides nothing (spiritually) has ever made more sense to her than this idea. She also realizes that she sees in her aging friends a desire to have something to believe in. She is grateful she has a God that she talks to and tries to listen to while her friends are struggling in this field. Toward the end of her trip in India, she writes another poem. Her first poem was created a month after she came to India, and it mostly complained about everything in the Ashram and her struggle with connecting with God. The second poem however,confesses she would do anything these people did just to be closer to God, to keep the relationship she built with him. As begins her travels of India in Bali, she determines that almost everyone in this city is friendly, and the city is very easy to navigate. Her new friend Mario takes her to see the medicine man she met the first time she traveled here. He doesn't recognize her at first, but after he does, he goes crazy and is all excited she came back. She offers to help him with his English, just as he requested previously. While having an English lesson, he updates her on his life. He tells her to let her conscience be her guide, and again says he is very happy to see her before they party ways. Liz evaluates Bali as a city, noting is extremely religious foundation and third world lifestyle. She realizes there isn't much of this worldview she can incorporate to her own since she is used to a more modern and western view. While visiting with her medicine man friend, Ketut, he tells her that Yoga is too hard, and that people always have too serious of faces while doing Yoga. Therefore she should just practice meditating because its easier.