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MATT WALLS: MY TWO YEARS IN PROVENCE

When conducting research for writing a book, you are faced with a dilemma. Do you read other works that have already been published on the subject, and risk being overly influenced by others’ opinions? Or do you concentrate on gathering your own first-hand experiences and evidence, but risk overlooking information that has already been uncovered and recorded?

Perhaps luckily for me, there has been relatively little published recently about the

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