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Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg

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Those Phrases Are the Basis of Our Family Unity

My parents had five children. We now live in different cities, some of us in foreign countries and we don't write each other often. But for us, it takes just one word to fall back into our old relationships. Our childhood, our youth, all ly linked. Those phrases are our latin the dictionary of our past. They're like egyptian or a syro babylonian hieroglyphics - evidence of a vital cord that has ceased to exist but lives on in its text. These phrases are the basis of our family unity and will persist as long as we are in the world,. recreated and revived in desperate places on the earth.

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