Money Is Hard To Enjoy When You Grew Up Poor
The currency connecting me with my mother, my partner, and Florence and the Machine
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7 min readMay 30, 2019
A year before I was born, my mom left the Comoro Islands — an archipelago northwest of Madagascar — and half my family to start a better life in France. My early childhood memories are hazy, but I know we lived at the bottom of the wealth pyramid and…
