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Being in France last week reminded me of perhaps the oddest, not to mention the funniest thing that has ever happened to me during my travels ...

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So last Monday I walked into the self-service laundromat at the Place Monge metro stop in Paris, and found the owner removing all of the weekend cash (at least I think she was the owner). She was an attractive woman, maybe 45, with smartly coiffed, shoulder-length blonde hair. She wore a fashionable calf-colored suede jacket, black designer slacks and flat, black shoes, as well as a lovely silk scarf over a pretty white blouse. On her hands were white kid-gloves to keep her fingers from being soiled by the piles of coins that she collected from the machines. She looked like she was on her way for a five-course lunch on the Champs Elysees, and for all I knew, she was Catherine Deneuve. But then, as I found everywhere I went in Paris, nearly everyone – even the people who work in laundromats – dresses beautifully, and if they’re tall and blonde enough, they might be Catherine Deneuve.

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Boy, I can’t wait. As you read this, I’ll be winging my way eastward on an Air France jet bound for Paris, and trying desperately to remember the verb conjugations for “I want to eat that/those/it/all of them/more of it.” I’m headed to the Loire Valley for the first time to see some castles, drink some wine, mangle some language and see the sights.

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