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The Expat Diaries: Leaving Home, Finding Home

Vivian, Mutanu, Kay Fabella

A weekly newsletter featuring personal stories from people who've made the big leap, moving from their home country to a different country where they started a whole new life--who they are, why they moved, and what happened next.

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  • Vivian

    American currently living in a city by the sea in Portugal. Successful litigator turned professional home organizer. Reader of all the books. Lover of big, bright, bold, gallery walls. Lazy river floating champion.

  • Mutanu

    A Detroit girl living Lagos life. Letters about starting over somewhere you didn't choose.

  • Kay Fabella

    Writing for people 5+ years abroad who are outwardly settled and still carrying something they can't name · Essays on migratory grief and the "no longer new, still not home" phase · Fil-Am 17 yrs in Spain · Counsellor-in-training (CPCAB)

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