【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 best way. The extra fourteen minutes did not make me late; they made the town ______.
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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