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Looking at the world

Finding my curiosity again on a trip to Scotland.

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Ruth Franklin
Aug 05, 2024
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Dear friends,

When I was sixteen, I spent the summer in Paris. This sounds more romantic than it was. My grandparents, who hoarded aluminum foil when it went on sale and wore decades-old polyester clothing, allowed as their single extravagance a trip every other year to visit relatives—siblings of my grandfather who had settled there after the Holocaust.…

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