Category: Living in France
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Diamonds in the Olive Trees
Along the winding way to Sacha's BMX track, which weaves through olive orchards, vineyards and goat farms, the road is narrow with spectacular views. Views that I barely notice because the twisty snake of a road is similar…
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Happy Tears with a Taste of Salt
` Photos and text by Corey Amaro Happy. The end of the school year. The end of an era. Sacha graduates soon.Since age four, Fabrice, Sacha's best friend, will go to school in Cannes. These are the last days of…
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Snapshots from Cassis
Photos and text by Corey Amaro: A yellow wall is the background for a planter of hens and chickens. The summer nights are full of light. Eight in the evening, the shutters are shut, and the flowers reach out for…
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Fete des Pères
Memory 1988: Sitting up, he leaned over the couch and said, "Corey?" "Oh Dad!" I was caught off guard, "You surprised me, I didn't know you were here." I picked up the phone to call Yann, my soon to be…
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Terms of Endearment: Coco Puff
When the women are from America and men are from France, wait isn't there a book with a title like that… how does it go? Venus and Mars isn't it? Well, let's just say when you heart parks in…
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Match Making, or How a Volcano can make a Hot Apple Pie…Match Maker’s Tale One Year Later
Photographs and text by Corey Amaro Match Making: Two willing souls who did not know they wanted to be together. One Match Maker: Who was not thinking about matchmaking. Came together unexpectedly. The French Man (Pierre) Late fifties, divorced over…