THE NARRATIVE ARC

Finding the Magic in the Everyday

A love story and a life lesson

Patrick Metzger
Published in
4 min readApr 4, 2024

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a small footbridge over a stream in a park
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Sometimes there’s an exact moment when you realize someone will be important in your life.

Juli was from California, and we met at the National University of Singapore. I was a lacklustre business student doing an exchange term for my MBA, and she was a dancer working on her…

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Patrick Metzger
The Narrative Arc

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