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way think about decamping to the suburbs, but for Romain and Aurélie Fliedel, who were living in Boulogne-Billancourt, a town west of Paris, it was just the opposite. When Aurélie became pregnant with their first child, they decided to move back to the city, specifically to the 15th arrondissement, where they had once lived. They missed their old neighborhood, with its streets lined

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