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However well I readjust myself to life in America, my youth, the best part of it, lies ever in the Orient.
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The speaker says that, even while adapting to life in America, the most valuable part of their youth still belongs to the Orient. The contrast shows that settling into a new life has not displaced the deep importance of where they grew up.
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