You have two birth-places. You have where you were really born and then you have a place of predilection where you really wake up to reality.
-Lawrence Durrell, Blue Thirst
Predilection implies a strong liking deriving from one's temperament or experience (a predilection for travel). It implies an established preference for something.
The author's discovery of predilections came in Europe,and later in Mexico.
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One day you finally knew what you had to do and began.... -Mary Oliver, The Journey
