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‘i need to tell you this - there is no knowing cape breton without knowing how deeply ingrained two diametrically opposed experiences are:
a deep love for home, and the knowledge of how frequently we have to leave it to find work somewhere else.’
— Jan 06, 2025 09:26AM
a deep love for home, and the knowledge of how frequently we have to leave it to find work somewhere else.’
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Alina Stashane
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‘-well but what if they’re just being nice?
-i think, my daughter, that is the point.’
— Jan 06, 2025 09:42AM
-i think, my daughter, that is the point.’
Alina Stashane
is on page 12 of 430
‘i learn that i can have opportunity or i can have home. i cannot have both, and either will always hurt.
i learn, by twenty-one, that any job is a good job. even a bad one is a good job; you’re lucky to have it.’
— Jan 06, 2025 09:30AM
i learn, by twenty-one, that any job is a good job. even a bad one is a good job; you’re lucky to have it.’
Alina Stashane
is on page 10 of 430
‘the only message we got about a better future was that we had to leave home to have one.
we did not question it, because this is the have-not region of a have-not province, and it has not boomed here in generations.’
— Jan 06, 2025 09:17AM
we did not question it, because this is the have-not region of a have-not province, and it has not boomed here in generations.’

