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The boundless generosity of Cretans
“In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him all doors and all hearts are opened.” – Nikos Kazantzakis, “Report to Greco” I knock hesitantly on the door of a house on a back street in Hania. A gray-haired woman opens it and looks at me with …