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Letter from Iceland
Letter from Iceland #93

Letter from Iceland #93

The "you can do anything" edition

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Sep 17, 2024
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When I moved back to Iceland in 1994 with my daughter Aldís, it had definitely not been on my long-term plan. After my failed attempt a decade earlier I had resigned myself to a self-imposed exile from the country of my birth.

And yet those of us who have a visceral relationship with Iceland feel an underlying disconnect, almost a pain, when we are away…

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