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I know an old Swiss woman who has knitted socks for 80 years. She is the cur-
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rent matriarch of a family that has been rooted in the same Swiss canton for
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countless generations. Marriages have always been made locally; family mem-
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bers have rarely traveled far. Now she has 15 grown-up grandchildren. Ten of
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them have settled with foreigners and several live abroad. Her family – so Swiss,
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white, and Protestant for so long – now extends across three continents and
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includes Hungarians, Romanians, Russians, Italians, English, Jamaicans, Koreans,
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Somalis and Canadians. In one jump, this monocultural family has become
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multinational, multiracial, multi-faith. There are Buddhists, Catholics, a Muslim;
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African and Asian great-grandchildren. It took her a while to get used to it, this
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sudden distribution of her close-knit, close-by family. But now she knits socks
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for all of them, even parceling them up to send to her in-laws in Africa or the
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Americas. They are good socks and make useful gifts. And so many people in this
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dispersed and extended family wear them that they also seem to function as this
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great-grandmother’s way of adding to their connectivity and, perhaps, knitting
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them all into her own life.
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