22 Aug 2022

Previous generations felt this way, too, I reassure myself. It reassures me. An ice cream along the canal stirs, assures, a tinge of desire and release on the bridge. (You know, previously they all stuffed it down, ran away, burst.) Walk back, all the way to the water.

A woman with a suitcase stands in front of a sign in art nouveau style lettering that says “Bastille” with the French metropolitan sign in the same lettering in the background.

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