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Words of Evangelia Senior

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Words of Evangelia Senior9/21/19Today Evangelia and I sit in the shade of the olive trees sipping iced coffees. “Next year we go to Karditsa together,” she says. “Snap, snap, you can make many photographs.” A nice idea as her entire extended family,

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by Beatrice Hamblett

On the Road and Back

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I am home now back on the island of Skopelos, my base for five months a year. Always, it is good to leave the hotels behind, but alas, the pleasures and freedom of the road—new and old places visited, new friends—too quickly recedes.Thinking back…I

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by Beatrice Hamblett

Mitsos Goes to Jail

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9/15/19On my last visit to Aliveri, September 2019, I stop by Konstandina and Mitsos’s house. They meet me at the gate with bad news: Mitsos has just been arrested for driving without a diploma, a license. “Ah bad, bad news,” he tells me. He plies

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by Beatrice Hamblett

A Great Racket

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I call Marinos this morning to confirm our meeting at the astinomia, the local police. We agreed that I will sell them my old motorbike for 100 euros. That’s what we tell the police, anyway. In reality, it’s a gift from me to them in exchange for

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by Beatrice Hamblett

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