Trafika Europe 12 - French Bon-Bons

Camille Laurens

of Paris. I invented a job in events management: I organized fashion-related performances, was badly paid, a perennial intern, but I traveled quite a lot and was shaping up my résumé— I was only twenty-four, after all. I lived in Pantin. The fashion thing was to keep him interested; the traveling to justify the problems (I anticipated) of meeting him in person if he suggested it— I often went away at very short notice, my boss could need me at any time, lucky I was single. How about him? He lived in Lacanau, in a friend’s house a couple of minutes from the ocean, real nice (you bet! Oh, the jolt of jealousy when I read that! He’d taken my place, I should have been there, with Joe). The pair of them were planning a trip of several months to India, Goa, they were going to film everyday life there, denounce the poverty and injustice. His friend was also hoping to meet some musicians. He himself was planning to write a book. Did he already have a publisher? No, not really. But several were interested. _____

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