November 3rd, 2002
So you want to live in France...
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-10-26&id=2409
French with tears
Victoria Kaulback crossed the Channel in search of glamour and romance, and found a land of humourless conformity Paris
I think I have been had. Like someone who has just read one of those magazine articles entitled ‘What He Says and What It Means’ and has discovered that ‘I want to spend loads of time with you’ means ‘I want to sleep with your best friend’. The scales have fallen from my eyes, and the daylight hurts.
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French with tears
Victoria Kaulback crossed the Channel in search of glamour and romance, and found a land of humourless conformity Paris
I think I have been had. Like someone who has just read one of those magazine articles entitled ‘What He Says and What It Means’ and has discovered that ‘I want to spend loads of time with you’ means ‘I want to sleep with your best friend’. The scales have fallen from my eyes, and the daylight hurts.
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