Last night my wife and I walked out of comedy show smiling the way you do when you’ve just spent a couple of hours laughing your ass off. We left the venue, had a smoke, and checked our phones. I was bombarded with messages about the news that President Joe Biden was leaving the race for re-election. The smiles left our faces.
We had a romantic dinner at the first place we ever stayed as visitors in Paris. The Hôtel Providence is a beautiful little boutique hotel in the 10eme. We’d spent a couple of nights there in 2019 fantasizing about living here one day. We enjoyed a few meals in their gorgeous restaurant eating savory French food, listening to a pianist play one day, or their literal turntable spinning music of every era in every language another, and… so going back is a fairly regular occurence for us now that living here is no longer a fantasy.
I tell you that because we sat there in this romantic setting just kind of numb. Not because it was a surprise necessarily, but because…
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