I grew up in a tight-knit community in the town of Bolesławiec, Poland, where both my parents worked in the local stoneware factory. My parents had deep roots in the community of approximately 40,000 residents, and my mother worshipped nearby in a beautiful 12th-century Catholic church. Situated on the Bóbr River in the Lower Silesia in southwestern Poland, Bolesławiec looks like a fairy-tale city with its cobblestone streets, rows of ancient tenements built in the Baroque and Renaissance styles, 12th-century churches and charming shops along city streets. Throughout history, this region experienced numerous foreign occupations, but the indigenous clay and pottery making remains since the 7th-century.
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