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Moving to Berlin felt like joining a spontaneous gathering of strangely multifarious yet connected tribes.

It started on my first night in the city and hasn't stopped, these people crossing my path from Rome, Beirut, Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Sierra Leone, San Francisco, Puerto Rico, London, Lapland, Helsinki, Kiel, Nantes, Andalusia, Zagreb, wherever. They'd arrived last week, or decades ago, and many had escaped from something and found a kind of refuge in this city.

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