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There’s something so romantic about traveling.

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I am not the first writer to fall in love with the fantasy of the City of Lights, nor will I be the last.

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The city was burning under the sun and beneath the microscope of my scrutiny.

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We’re taught we should be bold and passionate by bringing our loves flowers and making grand gestures like standing in the rain with a boom-box over our heads like John Cusack in, “Say Anything…”

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Paris: Where you’ll never be as well-dressed as that random chain-smoking twelve year old.

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We might yell a heavily-accented “DOMO ARIGATO HAHAHAHAHA” at a man in the subway in Tokyo, but of course, they would know we were not being serious and therefore not judge us on our deaf ear for language.

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You won’t be able to impress anyone with your extended two-word knowledge of their language and won’t ever hear the sentence “Oh my god!!! Your accent is so. cute.” You don’t want to miss all those precious chances of getting laid!