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Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local - Taiye Selasi

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When someone asks you where you're from … do you sometimes not know how to answer? Writer Taiye Selasi speaks on behalf of "multi-local" people, who feel at home in the town where they grew up, the city they live now and maybe another place or two.

What does it mean to be multi-local?

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