Moving abroad sharpens your sense of culture. Pinocchio might be open to interpretation, for a French Italian in the Netherlands, the wooden puppet represents home: a father reading aloud at bedtime, the scent of a thumbed picture book, the magic of reading by yourself. At the same time, Pinocchio’s adventures coincide with being away from home, because the puppet also sets out into the world. Where, through trial and error, he learns that love will prevail. Yet the most magical thing about Pinocchio, for an architect, is that it concerns a design being brought to life.
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