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Paris is the place where I really grew up. Where I learned how to be happy and generous. Paris is my other home town, the one that I chose for myself.
It was difficult for me to place this on a map called "Leap of Faith," because I don't think of it like that. In some ways you can look at my entire adult life as a series of leaps of faith, but when they are strung so close together like that, it's difficult to isolate one from another. It's not like leaping so much as letting myself be carried.
People often ask me why I went to France when I was 20 and I have no true answer. I used to always say that I was trying to get as far away from Iowa as possible and that when I got to Paris it suddenly dawned on me that the world is round and if I don't stop somewhere I'm going to end up back where I came from.
Paris is the place where I really grew up. Where I learned how to be happy and generous. Paris is my other home town, the one that I chose for myself.
It was difficult for me to place this on a map called "Leap of Faith," because I don't think of it like that. In some ways you can look at my entire adult life as a series of leaps of faith, but when they are strung so close together like that, it's difficult to isolate one from another. It's not like leaping so much as letting myself be carried.
People often ask me why I went to France when I was 20 and I have no true answer. I used to always say that I was trying to get as far away from Iowa as possible and that when I got to Paris it suddenly dawned on me that the world is round and if I don't stop somewhere I'm going to end up back where I came from.
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mindshare2000 says: You were 20 ... my leap came much later (I was 44). But, hey, leap when it's "leaping time". I've been in Paris since 1994 and don't expect to move anytime soon. For a Puerto Rican from Adjuntas, who grew up on the USA East Coast, worked 17 years at IBM and traveled over 45.25 of the US states ... all I can say is "I"m home now".
All my best to you.
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magic, love, parties, growing up, wine, friends, family, cheese, paris, tali, sam, vigo, lovers, happiness, expat, booger, lily, shakespeare and co, nanterre, la baule, nanny, nicolas, rice and lentils, erik
magic, love, parties, growing up, wine, friends, family, cheese, paris, tali, sam, vigo, lovers, happiness, expat, booger, lily, shakespeare and co, nanterre, la baule, nanny, nicolas, rice and lentils, erik
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