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The first time I visited Claudio at his home in Varinella, he was tearing down the roof of his great-grandmother’s medieval townhouse, which he’d inherited. It looked like a bomb site. The roof was gone, reduced to piles of terracotta tiles. Chestnut rafters were exposed, the side of the house torn [...]

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It’s spring in New York. That means it’s time for our annual migration. Along with snow geese, swallows, and Siberian cranes, my husband and I change continents with the warming of the air. It’s a long commute, but twice a year, we leave New York and its 8.3 million inhabitants for the [...]

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