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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote in [personal profile] dhampyresa 2021-05-12 11:58 pm (UTC)

and just coming to appreciate the real Paris, not the whitewashed nonsense of US media' would be PRETTY DOPE ACTUALLY.

I would watch that show or movie; it would be about the point of visiting a place, not just imagining it. I would also eat those noodles and visit that lesbian bar, are we kidding?

Maybe I just miss my city

I miss cities I don't even live in. Plague sucks, Harry.

*hugs*

(I was in France for about five days in the spring of 1999. It was a high school chorus trip, so mostly what we were doing was singing in cathedrals, but we were based out of Paris and my best memory of the city outside of museums and performances—fair warning that it comes without place-names; I have no idea where in the city we were and I very much doubt that at this distance I could reconstruct it—was the evening that I was supposed to go with some friends to a jazz club, but one of said friends hurt her ankle and couldn't leave the hotel, so instead of going without her we decided to bring her flowers to make her feel better. Except we had to find somewhere that was open to sell us flowers. We kept finding shops just as they closed. We took a group selfie in front of a shuttered florist's just to prove that we'd been looking. And then finally we stumbled across a woman selling flowers in a Métro station; she was packing to go when we descended on her and I bought fifty francs' worth of what I remember as really nice flowers and then we had to drag one friend out of the bookstore and another out of the music store and get ourselves back to the hotel and I presented the bouquet to our ankle-wounded friend in the manner of a proposal, which I believe technically she accepted by taking the flowers and hugging me. The point of the story is that I remember Paris as a good city for being slightly feral in. I believe in its cormorants.)


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