HeyJaredMarie's Musings
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Le Vieux Paris n’est plus. (opens the original)
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Oh to be twenty in Paris in 2004. We were young and the wonder of it is that we did not know how young we were, and how the small things we thought would last forever were bound to disappear, not in a massive crash but one fragment at a time, like ink on a page under the sputtering rain. I do remember the rain, the first rains of that September month. The autumn showers caught us unguarded in summer dresses and light blouses, ruining the paperbacks we read in the Jardin du Luxembourg, dissolving
How I fell in love with John Keats (opens the original)
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Enough with culture wars stuff. Let’s talk about love instead.So there was that guy…Now that I have your attention, I can tell you the story. You will see it is, in the end, still a love story, and still about culture. There was, indeed, a guy; and I was thirteen. He was slightly older, fourteen, maybe. I was one year ahead of my studies, so I assume he was fourteen. Everyone had that sort-of-a-crush on him that is the life and soul of being anywhere between thirteen and fifteen. The girls thoug
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