France part Un: Le Vrai Thing

I'm not from here
But people tell me
It's not like it used to be
They say I should've been here
Back about ten years
Before it got ruined by folks like me
—Larry McMurtry, "I'm Not From Here"



Here comes a long, slightly downbeat meditation on our first dinner in Paris, in which I try to get all that "I'm a traveler, not a tourist" BS out of the way. Don't worry, I won't go on at this length about every single dinner we had.

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