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Christmas Markets and My Austrian Grandfather

My grandfather grew up in Salzburg. He came to Munich in 1954 for a job at a printing press and he lived in Munich for the next sixty-eight years, but every December for those sixty-eight years he went back to Salzburg for the Christmas market. He said the Munich markets were fine. He said the Salzburg ones were home.

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Quiet Ember

Beautiful.

1 month
Omar F.

Taking your daughter for the first time this year. That is the moment the story becomes hers too.

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Fatima Z.

The honey man's son. The mulled wine family's cousin. Continuity through small changes. Beautiful.

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