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This is less a claim about identity than about movement and adaptation. It can be taken to mean that belonging is shaped by both family roots and a life spent moving, so home becomes something carried rather than fixed. It lands in a personal introduction, where someone is explaining why their background feels both anchored and widely dispersed.
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Originally said in English.
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About Gina Haspel
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