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Daily Archives: May 8, 2013

“No Sh*t Sherlock!”

08 Wednesday May 2013

Posted by Louise & Tom in Travel

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expat, friendship, Girona, heart attack, Josep Trueta hospital

Steve Brown's watercolor of the Girona cathedral in the rain.

Wherein Tom discovers a new strategy for the advance of immersion language learning in Spain.

I counted fourteen gowned sycophants in the room, buzzing about a solitary, supine individual like bees in a hive. At their center — it chafes my sensibilities to type this — playing the role of the queen, was me.

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