我的朝圣之路

In 20(13,! #+ an Australian m +an a few months shy of) `turning 60* decided to .walk the $Camino de^ Santiago – ?an 8 00km[ p()ilgrimage trail across the
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 of :Spain. , He! had no k+`
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o:wn religion%,- `= .[ a nd ab?.solutely_ no idea wh!y he felt s%o^.( ^ (deeply compell ^!
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tortu. ro/^us walk.　　Bu,^%( t c[ompell- ed,^) he wa`)+s.　　He completed the walk_/, ^!battling #a \.“tr:@\iu\#,mvirate of p_ain” +%- a knee that he la)]`t^*er disco?ve_@\-red lac=ked any `meaningfu- ,l ca@*?rti\)lag\e, a blister the;?? si@`ght=+ of _?;(;wh+ich woul+d make a gr-own man w);eep, and shin-soreness tha/@t felt =@#like his lower li]mb
;% had been s+plit with a %mountain \+**axe wiel /!ded by a de=-\_me+ nt?\ed (?troll.　　Arr iving ), at the e^nd ;_?of the Ca/mino$@, the ma_?j$-., estic cathedral in)!) Santia^go de Compostela, he expected !!.+an= )e_%([piphany – an answer :/:to the question he$=’d been asking^#  !:himse`* l]f every day: Why $-(am I doing this?　%,!`_　But no:_\^ ans(`#we r ca=^_*me.　　So wh;-_en h/*e g(]ot home @ !he wro*te a;@ book, ho\pi ;ng^ the answer would reveal itself in : [his s\`.?cribbling:!;[s.%)% The)/ result :
@_was Th];e W*=ay$,^ -[% My Way, a humou=(?]rous and sel ^f-depr.+,(ecating b^o$]ok t;!hat many consider the bes?t ; memoir ever writte!$n on =?#walki ng - th#;e Cam](!;+ino.　] :　*The book has now b ee$n m*:ade i=nto[? a film, an,d it’s an extraor]dinary=  account of a man at a pivot al p/\oin?^,t in his life, searching for m]eaning and ?finding himself unde.#rgoing *a fundamental tr:ans @@form-*ation so profoun;d that he now divid/es\ h!^is life int!@o “?Befor\e the Camino” - and “After the Camino.”　　It@’s a story @@particu)
^lar t_o on)e m;,^an, ye.;^t o]f app:eal to a^nyone seeking a grea(ter me(an/i$ng 
[from `?life.