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The Days After Christmas
Thank you Rebecca Carvin NYC , « Corey Amaro when I saw this on your blog today, I thought "oh that's beautiful" and then, "oh that looks familiar" I cannot…
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Merry Christmas Home at Last
We unwrapped the gifts. Gabriel was giddy and gladly helped each of us unwrap our gifts. We keep the tradition that my family had growing up. After Christmas Eve…
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Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve. Home. Gabriel set the table. Martin and Chelsea prepared dinner. Yann entertained the baby. I sat by the table admiring how beautiful Christmas unfolded. Not as I imagined…
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Spiritual Love
My grandmother Amaro said to the five-year-old me while we were sitting in her car that spiritual love was stronger than physical love. She told me this because I had…
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There is a common practice amongst smokers in France. As soon as they walk outside they light up. Inhale as their life depends on it. When every tobacco leaf is…
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Provencal Christmas Tradition
Sainte Barbe and the Christmas Wheat Repost from year's ago. On December 4th, the feast of Sainte Barbe, the first Provençal Christmas tradition, takes…
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The 20th
Girl Dancing for her teddy bear, Paris, 1961. Photograph by Philippe le Tellier Today I was to have a long-awaited rendezvous with a reputed pulmonologist in Marseille. Forty-eight hours…
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