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Reflections of a working writer and reader

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Helen Keller

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The Lost Generation - Happy Days

With thanks and acknowledgements to Hemingway’s Paris and Jacob Russell’s Barking Dog

But if your browser won’t let you watch the video, goto YouTube and watch it there.

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Paris, Je T’aime - a film

This 2006 film brings together a collection of short stories by more than twenty different directors. The link is the city of Paris. And in Paris we meet lovers, divorcees, tourists, lovers, vampires, parents, children, gays, lovers, murder, madness, tight parking spaces, Oscar Wilde, lovers, terminal illness, a couple of clowns, Tour Eiffel, dreams galore, [...]

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