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My Early Assumptions About France
* more enlightened
* better food
* less restrictive attitudes about sex and gender
* mastering the language would take a few months tops
* the lifestyle of the writer is amply rewarded
* it’s pretty much like the film Amélie
* but with painful taxes and secret social codes
* and citizens who sometimes get stuck in the past
* and believe the world turns around their country
My Wife’s Early Assumptions About America
* can do spirit alive and well
