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Reasons.

Talking with a friend in Paris before I left, he said, “TEXAS?!?  You’re moving from PARIS to TEXAS!?!” And I said Yes. And he said But why?! “There are the reasons that I tell and then there’s a girl.” “Some girl?” And I said that no, not just some girl and he said that he [...]

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There was a metro preacher the other day who said, “People say that you can’t cure cancer.  Cancer is a tiny virus,” he said.  ”So tiny.  To God, cancer is the size of an ant.”  Considering a virus is monumentally smaller than an ant, God, in this man’s eyes, must be an itty bitty little [...]

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Two things made him sad.

I pass my life on the metro.  It makes it difficult to wake up in the morning. Today, two men were talking behind me as we waited for the train. Man 1:  I have been sad twice in my life. Man 2:  When? Man 1:  The first was when my best friend died.  His name [...]

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Paris park with pigeons and fountains last night’s wine bottle tipped over under the bench. Late morning bright paris springtime sun open windows top floor ten foot shadows on hardwood. Scooters upon scooters upon scooters upon scooters upon scooters upon scooters upon scooters parked outside the Japanese restaurant. Accents down the metro stairs carrying luggage. [...]

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Commute.

Some people, in the dull yellow light of the mètro, the glass bottle of coke, rolling hitting the wall at every stop with un petit piece s’il vous plaît un ticket resto, still look beautiful and go home to empty apartments.

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