We arrived early today in Paris after a very smooth and easy flight. We were picked up by our Taxi man who took us to Aurelien's father's clinic in Montegany. There we met Guy, Aurelien's father, took the car and headed home. Home here in France is a beautiful place in a forset outside a city called Fountainbleau about an hour south of Paris. We drove on a long beautiful stretch of a forested road until it eventually began to wind and turn into a small town called Montigny. We passed Mimi's house, Aurelien's great- grandfather house where Aurelien and his brothers, his mother, and his grandmother Mimi grew up. It is so incredible to be in a place with so much family history and not too much has changed. I heard stories from the childhoods
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