【高中·完形填空·The Long Way Home】
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For three years I took the shortest route home from the station. It was eleven minutes of grey wall and traffic. One evening the road was closed, so I turned into a side street I had never used.
That walk took twenty-five minutes. I passed a bakery, a tiny garden, a man repairing clocks behind a window. I had lived in this town for a decade and had never seen any of them.
We often confuse efficiency with living. The quickest way is not always the ______ way. The extra fourteen minutes did not make me late; they made the town real.
Since then I have chosen the longer road on purpose, not because I have more time, but because I have decided that noticing things is worth time.

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