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" Like practically everyone who grew up in Miami, I knew little about its history. We were more worried about mangoes falling on our cars. "

Pamela Druckerman

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" In my 40s, I expect to finally reap the average-looking girl's revenge. I've entered the stage of life where you don't need to be beautiful; simply by being well-preserved and not obese, I would now pass for pretty. "

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" Soon after Donald Trump was inaugurated, I got a letter from France's interior ministry informing me that I was now French. By the time it arrived, I'd been French for nearly two weeks without even knowing it. "

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" Earnestness makes British people gag. "

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" While I love walking past those beautifully lit bookstores in my neighborhood, what I mostly buy there are blank notebooks and last-minute presents for children's birthdays. "

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" When I moved to Europe 12 years ago, my biggest concern was whether I'd ever speak decent French. Practically every American I knew came to visit, many saying they dreamed of living here, too. "

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" When my mother in Florida mentions that she's off to play golf, I think: Golf? In the age of Trump? "

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" Where Americans might coo over a child's most inane remark to boost his confidence, middle-class French parents teach their kids to be concise and amusing, to keep everyone listening. "

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" I've never gotten a good idea while checking Twitter or shopping. "

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" When we're in the U.S., my kids instantly start snacking all the time. I don't know how it happens. There is just more food available all the time. There aren't all these little different varieties of snack foods in France. "

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" In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because no one is talking to them at home, no one is reading to them. And middle-class parents seized on this research. "

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" When I was 41, I had a very bad back pain, and it turned out to be Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. "

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" Just do what you want more often. Don't be so worried about what other people expect. "

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" If you had asked me what I wanted when I was 12 years old, I probably would have said, 'To marry a plastic surgeon.' You can hardly blame me: I was growing up in Miami. "

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" French children seem to be able to play by themselves in a way. "

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" The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality. "

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" It's fine to discuss money in France, as long as you're complaining that you don't have enough, or boasting about getting a bargain. "

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" I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it. "

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" When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful. "

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" There's an American idea that you want to look as young as you can for as long as you can. If you can be mistaken for a teenager from behind into your 50s, then you've won; you've succeeded. "

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" Discrimination was a problem before terrorism. Now, the bad deeds of a few people have made life worse for millions. "

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" One of the maddening things about being a foreigner in France is that hardly anyone in the rest of the world knows what's really happening here. They think Paris is a socialist museum where people are exceptionally good at eating small bits of chocolate and tying scarves. "

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" I hear people in their 20s describe the 40s as a far-off decade of too-late, when they'll regret things that they haven't done. But for older people I meet, the 40s are the decade that they would most like to travel back to. "

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" The French view is really one of balance, I think... What French women would tell me over and over is, it's very important that no part of your life - not being a mom, not being a worker, not being a wife - overwhelms the other part. "

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" In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem is resolved. "

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