Word: ashoresã
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...interesting holiday season, culinarily speaking). Back home, I took my status as a cultural chameleon in stride. In my eastern Massachusetts hometown, where your roots need to extend five generations before you’re counted as native, and where non-natives are branded “wash-ashores?? even after fifty years’ residency, my lack of cultural identity didn’t seem particularly important. I wasn’t a native—not by the five-generation standard, at least—and in my hometown, that negative definition was enough...
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