It had to happen. I had hoped it would be later, but it was inevitable that we would eventually have to face the reality of living alongside the local people. The social atmosphere in the region is not very different from that of any isolated community that has remained almost cut off from the main…

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After the visit to the notary, after learning what it would cost to rebuild the entire house, and after realising that even the simplest bureaucratic procedures would bring countless headaches, we set off on the road back home — still carrying the weight of ruin. We had one final appointment left: with a provincial architect…

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Dreaming is easy. It was to be expected that turning those dreams into reality would be far more difficult — especially in an unfair world where some barely have enough to eat, others die in senseless wars, and the rest look the other way, conspiring to hold on to the little they have. In that…

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