Dispatches from a Porch Swing

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My boyfriend is doing a Zoom meeting in our hotel room, so I’m having a glass of wine in the lobby. We’re in France again, so there’s always wine available everywhere. And espresso. These days here have been like one of those Scandinavian spas where you go from sauna to snow to sauna to snow until your body turns to jelly, except with espresso and wine.…

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