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Letter From Castelnau de Montmiral: Out-Twee the Foreigner

An Englishwoman’s home is her castle, so they say, and mine have stood up to various attacks.  From the neighbor who jumped my parents’ fence one day, brandishing a chainsaw, to cut down an inoffensive birch tree that had been upsetting his dog—itself a vicious Alsatian trained to draw blood first and ask questions later—to...