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It's always good to go back to a familiar place. Wednesday night I arrived in Yerevan for the second time. The driver who was sent to pick me up was a guy I remembered even. He had been a driver on one of my tours last year, and the guide of that same tour, Gevorg Babayan, called him on his cell phone once we were on the road. He called to greet me and welcome me again. It was night time, and we drove from Zvartnots Airport into Yerevan. There was a casino strip with signs in Armenian. A low-…