Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Dispatches from a Porch Swing

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Jen Deaderick
Jan 23, 2025
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I’m sitting in the bar car of a French train heading south from Paris. The French countryside is flying by. This is a high speed train, the kind we don’t have in the US.

There are two businessmen on the stools next to me. One is drinking Coke and eating M&Ms. I laughed when I saw that and remarked to him in my basic French how funny it was that he was e…

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