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Month: April 2013

The end of a chapter

Posted on April 28, 2013March 19, 2017 by Clay

Aboard the TGV to Paris I could exhale a little. After the morning’s frenzy and the schlepping of my five bags onto the…

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Farewell, Fitou

Posted on April 24, 2013March 19, 2017 by Clay

The time came for me to go home. After 85 nights in the so-called Yellow Apartment that I had found on Roomorama I…

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Photographic miscellany

Posted on April 15, 2013March 22, 2017 by Clay

 

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The bar tabac and my Norwegians

Posted on April 14, 2013March 22, 2017 by Clay

There is a French institution called the bar tabac. It exists in the smallest villages, such as Fitou, and the largest cities, such…

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A very interesting man I knew

Posted on April 8, 2013March 19, 2017 by Clay

It was the spring of 1996 and I was selling men’s shoes at Saks Fifth Avenue in Chicago. The suit department was next…

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