1. "Oh, but this vow is not necessarily a rigid one!" (A. Memmi)
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... and his rather brilliant quirks.  It was both a refuge and a bit of a revelation.  My recollections of my years in Sicily are hardly fond.  It wouldn't really break my heart to have the bulk of it wiped ...

2. notes on the distinction between (farm)houses and homes
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Upon leaving Sicily in the summer of 1995, after some seven years living overseas,  something of an exile -- or at very least,  a chronic dislocation --  began weaving its way through my experience ...

3. notes on suffering as rope burn
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... entirety of my adolescence unfolded across two years in Bermuda, and another five on the eastern coast of Sicily. There's a comfort that comes with what my senses seem to classify as "coastal" conditions. ...