I had been accepted to grad school in Paris, and moving day was upon me. I was to begin a Masters program at l'Université Paris-Diderot in September. The process of applying to a French university as a non-EU citizen had taken almost a year, but finally there I was, about to move to Paris for a legitimate reason! First, however, I had to make the 3,929 mile journey from Detroit, Michigan to Paris, France. I had decided to bring my cat, Pina, because she would just have missed me too much (or maybe it's I that would have missed her, who can say?). And she did well in the car, so I figured, is a plane really that much different? I arrived at the airport with two meticulously weighed suitcases, one at 70 lbs, and one
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