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because she married a guy from the village;
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and she's from the next village,
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about twenty football throws away, or a little more than that.
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And somebody as a joke once asked her,
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"How do you feel living in this village after all these years?"
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And she said, "Oh sometimes I get homesick."
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There was a sense that she'll
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never be from the village, she's from somewhere else;
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but, sometime between 1750 and maybe 1990 most--
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almost everybody in France began seeing themselves as French.
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And the schools play a major role in this and thus all these
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kids who grew up speaking patois or Provencal or Gascon--