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A friend who relocated his family from the United States to France about the same time that we moved from the States to Ireland once remarked, “You know, I think we’re doing this the hard way.” “Here in France, we’re scrambling to learn French so we can figure out what’s going on, because we’re always confused,” he said. “We’re trying to make friends and to find a place for ourselves in a…