My Trip to Europe in 1926
Paris
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I'm
in
front of the Louvre. My mother wrote the date on the back of the snapshot, March
1, 1927.
I
guess we spent a month in Paris. My mother told me years later that my favorite
place in Paris was a department store where a man dressed as Puss n' Boots stood
in front to attract attention to a sale. He was an American, an ex-navy man, she
said. Whenever we were near the store I would beg her to let me go see
him.
He would hoist me in his arms and we would talk... probably the only person in
Paris I could understand, or could understand me.
A
month later we were in Juan les Pains on the French Riviera and I climbed in a
boat. Notice I have yet to smile.
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