Claire Polders

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    The Beginning of Freedom

    Our Nomad Life—an Origin Story. I was on the lookout when change came and found me. After twenty years in Paris, after eighteen years of writing, working, and living in the same lovely-crappy-inspiring atelier, I felt stuck.

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    From Paris to Nowhere

    For 18 years, I lived with my (now) husband in a charming old artist atelier in Paris. But in the winter of 2019, we were expelled.

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