Ten Things I Learned in Paris
September 22nd 2007 I thought I had Paris figured out. Yet, my last night in the City of Light told me otherwise.
In the past two weeks I had gone from being tongue-tied in the pastry shops to spitting out orders with a smile. It had taken me 30 minutes to operate the train ticketing machine the first time. Towards the end, I was getting anywhere in the city without consulting a map or an English speaker.
But,
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