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home, redux

on finding a glimpse of it

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Karen Walrond
May 20, 2024
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I think a lot about what it means to be “home.”

When I was growing up, my father worked for an oil company, and as was common back in the late 70s, 80s and even early 90s, oil company execs were often given international assignments of about two years. Because of this, from age 5 to when I graduated high school, we moved back and forth between Trinidad a…

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