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What does home mean to you? Is it an idea or a literal place? My answer to the questions is complicated, as I begin to explain here.

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Paul Karns
Mar 01, 2024
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What, to you, is home?

There’s a little project I’ve been working on lately, and it’s jogged a lot of interesting thoughts about home and identity.

I came back from Maine early last summer with a box of my grandfather’s film slides from the late 1940s through the 70s. The initial goal was to put together a memory book (or something along those lines) for…

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