A Chicano In Paris

A Chicano In Paris

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Jan 06, 2023
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The One In Which I Try To Answer the Obvious Questions.

The first question we usually get is, why Paris? The Gorgeous Blonde (my wife) usually responds with a quick, why not? Most people laugh, but eventually they come back around and give us a, no, but really, why Paris?

The Gorgeous Blonde in the 16th
TGB Meandering the 16th Arrondissement our first night in Paris.

There really is no one reason. TGB and I came to the same conclusion - Paris - via very different routes. I grew up loving Hemingway and Audrey Hepburn. Both of those roads lead inevitably to Paris. Before joining the Air Force I considered going to work for the Big Mouse at Eurodisney. I still have the packet of paperwork in a box in California.

TGB went away on a school trip in High School. I am loathe to tell anyone else's story, so I will leave it at - that trip seemed to plant a seed.

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