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Daughter of the Nile

JL;DR SUMMARY Judith Miller recounts a lunch meeting with a 92-year-old woman living in Switzerland under an assumed name, reflective of her origins in a country she left decades ago. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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IdentityHistoryResilienceDisplacementNostalgiaMemoryPersonal HistoryJudith MillerLake GenevaSwiss Countryside

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Vaud, Switzerland
"...restaurant whose tall windows offered a stunning view of Lake Geneva and its snow-capped mountains."

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