Finally, this past visit, after she had organized an intensive summer course in History, Language and Art for her grandchildren, I gave her a small gift of cash, amid dire warnings to apply it to nothing other than a laptop that she would then use to start a blog.

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They found work through a private agency after taking an intensive course in Dutch, the language most commonly spoken in the north of Belgium.

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