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A gusto for LIFE

PEOPLE AND THEIR HOMES grow up together. Ever since Cris Briger and her late husband moved into the house they built in 1999 outside San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, she has watched herself and her home change.

“Just as you advance in life, your house has to advance with you or else you get stuck in time,” says Briger, who divides her time between a Modernist

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