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oh, about five or six years ago.
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Emilie Carles was born in abject poverty in the High Alps,
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in the Hautes-Alpes near Gap,
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up really high in the mountains here,
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and she became a schoolteacher as a common sort of means
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of social ascension for a poor person from a village.
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She was born right near the Italian border,
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but just in abject poverty.
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She married an anarchist from the Department of the Ardeche,
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where we happened to live or are,
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at least were legally residents and spend much of our time down
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here; and she moved from one school to the next.