Even now I wonder if it was my poor sense of self that first generated my poor sense of my people. Or was it my poor sense of my people that inflamed a poor sense of myself? Like the famous question about the chicken and the egg, the answer
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“While I was there, I learned about this unique French word called “dépaysement.” It literally translates to “decountrification” or “change of scenery,” but it’s used to describe this great feeling of living as a stranger somewhere far away from your memory; a sort of disorientation, lost and searching, but doing it with real curiosity and wonder. That was me in Paris.”
― I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator
― I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator
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