Homesick for the Holidays

When your new home is an ocean away from your old one, holidays are hard.

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Unlike many Americans, I never imagined myself living the good life in France. No, if I am perfectly honest, all of my living in Europe fantasies were centered around la dolce vita in Italy–my paternal motherland and the adopted home of my closest friend. Bonus points for a language similar enough to Spanish–my second language–to be decipherable…