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I Blame The Pyrenees For This

Benny Allen
6 min readJun 22, 2020

When my mum was about to receive her master’s degree the whole building suddenly crumbled, reduced to a pile of debris. Everyone was safe but all the archives were destroyed and there’s no proof she ever went to uni. At least this is the story she’s been telling us since we where kids.

No one in my family managed to get a degree, and because war and poverty everyone had experienced were decades behind, my sister…

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