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hungry kissing by the water’s edge close to midnight, nowhere to go and nowhere to be.

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Maybe it was the whiskey talking.

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This is to be the great summer of myself, of living beyond comfort zones, of finding courage and meaning in moments big and small.

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There is a wonderful café in Bastille, an area in Paris’ 11th arrondisement — a neighborhood near the city’s center.

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Some of the best food in the country is over here.

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The summers you would experience in high school. You were given three months to screw around with your friends. Sneak into movies, write in your diary, kiss in your childhood bedroom. Your only obligation was to read Animal Farm for Honors English and create a reading log (which, by the way, was super hard ).