Once I tried out the line “Remember who you were before you had a permanent address.” The client scoffed. At the time I lived in a converted garage by a cemetery, the third place I’d moved in a year. The restaurant was unexceptional — plastic chairs, coarse tablecloths, low guttering candles — and perfect. In the maze of the old quarter, we sat at a table outside, on stone stairs descending from another century. The restaurant was unexceptional — plastic chairs, coarse tablecloths, low guttering candles — and perfect.

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Persons: ”, I’d, Chantal, Audrey Hepburn’s, Olivier ducking, Lukas, Sasha, Mark, salade, “ Locations: Hawaii, Switzerland, Thailand, Myanmar