Young Alfred Tennyson grew up in a similarly provincial bit of England, tucked away in his father’s vicarage on a remote part of the east coast of England in a village of fewer than a hundred souls.
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Kathryn Hughes,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
But for Perez and others at the motel, the organizations have assembled a spontaneous network of like-minded people that have created a village of care.
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