It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.
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Sarah Turnbull
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Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris
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You'd think the sight of beautiful Place Vendôme would lift my spirits but oddly the arc of jewellery - so obviously beyond the means of a jobless person like me - only depresses me more. I plod on feeling confused, guilty even, that I should feel unhappy in a place that looks like paradise.
The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. _where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?_ (pp.281-82)