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November 8, 2012

The Greece of My Childhood Is Long Gone

Theopi Skarlatos, BBC News

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Biting austerity, protests with tear gas, and the growth of the far right - it's a far cry from the Greece I knew as a child and have visited regularly throughout my life.

I am standing in the square of Agios Panteleimonas reminiscing about the Greece I used to know as a six-year-old girl.

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