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Thursday, 31 August 2006 | 21:02

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It’s a cloudy, misty evening. Actually, the sky is nearly completely black – darkness seems to fall so early by late August.

Bienvenue à mon nouveau blog. L’ancien fonctionne toujours ici; je n’ai même pas le fermer jusqu’à maintenant! J’aimais mon ancien blog, mais le spam sur Ublog est horrible et arrive sans cesse, et je ne pouvais plus le supporter. Passer plusieurs heures par semaine en supprimant des commentaires était trop chiant. Alors, me voici: un nouveau habillage, des nouvelles notes, la même titre – et mon propre adresse web (grâce à mon chéri ;) – merci encore)! Je ne sais pas trop quoi faire ici, mais j’essaie quand même… Et le nouveau look, qu’est-ce que vous en pensez? Si vous avez lu mon ancien blog, vous savez que j’adore l’automne et la nature, les arbres et les montagnes, le lever et le coucher du soleil. And there in the banner above, there are autumn leaves and a subtle outline of mountains, all awash in the colour of a sunset. And though the leaves are drying up and dying (cynicism?), they are still delicate and pretty (beautiful) – note the parallel? :) Well I see it, anyway…

J’espère que vous aimerez ce nouveau endroit, et que vous retournerez me visiter de temps en temps. J’essaierai de construire un petit coin très beau et tranquille pour vous. Bises.

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Beginning anew

Thursday, 31 August 2006 | 20:46

Mais toute nouveauté a besoin d’impatience pour naître…

Elias Canetti

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Pensées divers d’un mardi

Tuesday, 29 August 2006 | 14:50


My Gramma and me


My Baba and me

Je voulais écrire hier soir, mais U-blog ne fonctionnait que sporadiquement. En plus, j’avais des centaines de spams qui m’attendait. (Comme tous les jours, vraiment…)

I found a clutch of photos circa 1985. I thought these two were appropriate, given my mood these last few days.

Les dames dans ces deux photos sont mes grand-mères. Dans la première photo, en haut, on voit la mère de mon père; dans l’autre, c’est la mère de ma maman. My paternal grandmother died on August 26, 1994: 3 days before my birthday. She had been healthy, other than some arthritis, until April of that year. She was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and was hospitalised almost immediately, but still died within a few months. It all happened very quickly. It’s kind of a similar situation with my maternal grandmother. Elle était de bonne santé auparavant. Elle est toujours à l’hôpital, où l’on va tous les jours pour lui visiter. Les médecins savent maintenant que son état à présent n’est pas le résultat de l’accident d’automobile; elle avait un caillot de sang qui a causé un lésion cérébrale. Impossible à connaître combien de dommage il y aura, ou combien de temps elle prendra pour guérir. Tout qu’on peut faire c’est d’attendre. Je me souviens de mes grand-mères – une qui est mort, qui était très gentille et tranquille, et qui avait un rire infectueux; l’autre qui est malade, qui chantait et dansait beaucoup (elle joue la mandoline dans la photo), et qui a également un rire infectueux. Ces souvenirs sont un trésor pour moi.

L’été part lentement; il est 8h et mes doigts sont extrèmement froids pendant que je tape cette note – hier soir il était seulement 8 degrés! Mais le ciel est clair et le soleil se lève, et les oiseaux chantent et l’air est frais: le début d’une journée merveilleuse, n’est-ce pas? Je suis avec ma mère; elle a blessé son dos gravement (pourquoi pas? C’est l’été pour les blessures et les maladies…) et, malgré mon coude qui toujours fait mal, je dois l’aider avec les petits travaux, le ménage, etc. Plus tard, j’irai à l’hôpital, puis à un de mes restos préférés pour un repas en famille pour mon anniv, qui est aujourd’hui :)

Hier soir, à l’hôpital, 2 soeurs de ma grand-mère étaient là à la même temps que moi et ma mère. Elles racontaient des histoires hilarants au sujet de ma grand-mère – quand elles étaient petites, quand elles allait voyager ensemble – et nous ne pouvons pas cesser de rire. The most important thing, though, was that my Baba was laughing too – big, body-shaking laughs (silent, of course, because of her tracheotomy tube), her mouth in a near-permanent wide smile. Her eyes were still closed, attesting to the fact that she has been utterly exhausted these past few days, but her spirit and self were so obviously present in the room despite all the physical limitations. It was refreshing, and inspiring. I had been feeling down about her condition recently – it was bound to happen some time, as that hopelessness has infected seemingly everyone else at one time or another – and I felt guilty about that. But last night’s visit changed all of that, and refocussed my perspective to where it should be. And why not? They do say laughter is the best medicine…

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Léopold Simoneau (1916-2006)

Sunday, 27 August 2006 | 5:45

Photo: cs.princeton.edu

Au revoir à une grande voix… “the Mozart tenor of his generation”.
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La cynique qui perd un peu de cynisme

Tuesday, 22 August 2006 | 8:31

There was a family meeting tonight. I was elected Secretary; as I walked in the door, my mum handed me a notepad and a pen and said “you’re taking the minutes”. As always, everyone else seems much more impatient, depressed, resigned, pessimistic than I… My revelation of the day: perhaps this cynic isn’t so cynical after all…

Je ne sais pas quoi dire. Il y a certains dans ma famille qui pensent que ma grand-mère ne guérira jamais, qu’elle sera dans son état actuel pour la vie, qu’il n’y a plus d’espoir. Il y a des autres qui croient qu’elle continuera à persévérer, qu’elle lutte pour sa vie, pour son santé, que son état s’améliorera avec du temps. Une famille, deux avis très différents. Mon avis est quelque part entre ces deux perspectives opposées. Je pense que c’est encore trop tôt d’abandonner tout espoir. La condition de ma grand-mère améliore chaque jour, chaque semaine. Aujourd’hui elle a été “déménagé” pour la deuxième fois en dedans d’un mois, à un autre étage, car elle n’a plus besoin le niveau de soin qu’elle recevait ces derniers temps. C’est une bonne nouvelle, bien sûr! Mais la guérison n’est pas assez vite pour certains dans la famille. Je comprends, mais je perds patience avec eux. J’avoue que ça me frustre…

Amidst the discussion of my Baba’s condition and questions we have for the doctors and decisions that need to be made about future care, a religious/philosophical debate broke out. About 3/4 of an hour were spent arguing over what “God’s plan” is for my Baba and which elements of her current condition are expressions of “God’s will” blah blah blah… Not to be disrespectful here, but… Guessing what God has in store for us? Can you think of anything more pointless about which to argue? I don’t believe in God, so this is a moot point to me, but I did find it interesting that so many in my family have this faith (to varying degrees) that “God’s will” shall be done, that He answers prayers, etc… but they display such a blatant lack of faith in human will and spirit. To me, a much more interesting question than, “what does God want in regards to my Baba?” is, “what does my Baba want for herself?” Personally I put more stock in my grandmother’s beliefs and wants and hopes and dreams, rather than the alleged and impossible-to-know-or-interpret plans of an abstract deity.

Après tout, ça se peut que le condition de ma grand-mère ne s’améliorera jamais. Mais seulement 4 semaines ont passés depuis l’accident: accordons-la un peu plus de temps, svp. Et ne la traitons pas comme si nous avons déjà décider qu’il n’y a plus d’espoir – pendant qu’elle lutte contre ses difficultés, ne l’abandonnons pas.

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Pensée du jour

Monday, 21 August 2006 | 5:21

La plupart hésitent, tâtonnent, trébuchent. Ils cherchent dans les livres, ils cherchent auprès d’une femme, ils cherchent auprès d’un dieu, partout ils cherchent ce qui n’est qu’en eux-mêmes, cette alliance de lenteur et de force, cette cadence la plus profonde du coeur, ce mélange le plus secret de l’eau avec le vin – l’eau de la lenteur, le vin de la vitesse.

Christian Bobin
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Anniversaire

Friday, 18 August 2006 | 4:22

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Today is my Baba’s 76th birthday.

Aside from some mostly private skirmishes with the nursing staff (my family does seem to make friends *so* easily around the hospital – note the sarcasm…), it all went off without a hitch. Eleven of us were allowed into the IICU at once (just the immediate family plus spouses); we surrounded my Baba’s bed and sang ‘Happy Birthday’ as well as ‘Mnohya Lita’ (traditional Ukrainian well-wishing song). There were smiles and tears, and pictures too. Later, about 30 other family members crowded into the Visitor’s Lounge next door, snacking on homemade cupcakes, cheese and crackers, and fresh fruit, prepared by one of my aunts (the fruit trays were not nearly as elaborate as my grandmother’s are – she was becoming as famous for them as she was for her dill pickles and perogies). My grandmother had to put up with a steady stream of visitors for the remainder of the evening. The wall next to her bed is covered in greeting cards; there were so many, we ran out of tacks with which to hang them. And on the table at the foot of her bed, right in her line of sight when she opens her eyes, stands a vase of fresh flowers – bright yellow gerbera daisies, bunches of lavender, and pale yellow roses (her favourite).

She was quite tired today; it took all of her energy just to open her eyes for us. She did respond to some questions, though, and smiled – especially when presented with the beautiful afghan quilt crocheted by my 11-year old cousin. In fact, I noticed several times that her eyes were watering – could they be tears? And if so, were they tears of joy or of sadness? In light of the circumstances, I’d venture to say a mixture of both.

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Bienvenue à Winnipeg (I): Folklorama

Thursday, 17 August 2006 | 5:55


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I had intended to write about a film tonight, Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, a documentary I’ve been itching to see since I first read about it. But we arrived at the theatre about 2 minutes too late: the show sold out (as it has every night this past week)! So instead, the Polish boy and I went to the Greek pavilion at Folklorama.

Folklorama is a yearly festival spanning 2 weeks in August., a summer tradition here in Winnipeg. There are dozens of pavilions, each featuring one country or region’s cuisine and entertainment. Each year it draws around a half a million people to the city. I visit at least a few favourite pavilions every year, even if the whole idea of Folklorama is a tad simplistic. (Boiling down each ethnicity to a few traditional costumes and dances and some regional cuisine is somewhat stereotypical, don’t you think? But it is generally good fun.) The diverse ethnic communities in the city get to showcase their traditional food, dance, dress, religion and customs, and the general public seems to love it.

Due to this summer’s circumstances, I’ve not been in much of a mood to celebrate; thus, my Folklorama schedule has been greatly reduced. Last week I visited only one pavilion (Ukraine-Kyiv) and this week I’ll likely only visit two – the first being the Greek pavilion, which we visited tonight. In the next few days I plan on visiting the Scottish pavilion as well. A much less ambitious schedule than previous summers, to be sure.

Visit: www.folklorama.ca

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Quotations, quotations

Tuesday, 15 August 2006 | 21:41

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
-James K. Feibleman

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
-Agatha Christie

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

And my personal favourite at the moment (it could be my motto for this summer):

It’s not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.
Ashleigh Brilliant

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Un peu plus positive, svp!

Sunday, 13 August 2006 | 14:20

Peu importe si le début paraît petit. -Henry David Thoreau

Et voilà. 7h22: je ne dors pas. Quelques heures de sommeil ce soir, c’est tout; je serai fatiguée encore une fois. Maybe one day I’ll learn to sleep again… An overcast but bright sky is heralding the new day. Jeudi sera l’anniversaire de ma grand-mère. Malheureusement, elle doit le fêter à l’hôpital. After the accident, before her heart stopped beating, she was already lamenting the fact that she would likely still be sore and injured for her birthday – and this was almost a month ago! Little did she know just how injured she would be. Ma famille sombre; je me suis rendu compte que tout le monde pensait que la guérison de ma grand-mère devrait être vite. Vu qu’elle est encore très malade, 3 semaines et demi après l’accident, mon grand-père, mon oncle, mes tantes deviennent très inquiètes, et déprimés. Ma mère semble un peu mieux qu’auparavant. As for me, I’m actually feeling a little better. It’s strange: when the family visits my Baba in hospital, that’s when they seem to get the most discouraged. It’s as if they’ve resigned themselves to the idea that this is “as good as it gets”. For me, however, it’s the opposite. It’s when I’m at my Baba’s bedside that I feel the most hopeful, the most positive. I see all the progress she’s made in the past few weeks, and while they may not be giant leaps, they are definite steps in the right direction, and she is leagues ahead of where she was 3 weeks ago. Nobody else seems to see this. Elle ne bougeait presque pas dans la salle de réanimation. Ses yeux étaient fermés presque tout le temps, et quand ils étaient ouverts, ils ne nous regardaient pas directement. Elle avait une fièvre, de la pneumonie, deux caillots de sang dans ses poumons. Son visage était obscurci et blessé par des divers tubes intraveineux. Elle avait besoin d’un respirateur. Now, she is moving her arms and legs and shoulders all the time, as though she’s constantly stretching. The pneumonia that she caught in the hospital has long since cleared up. The status of the blood clots are unknown, as they apparently don’t retest (how silly is that?), but she’s been treated for them since the moment they found them. She’s had 2 surgeries, which, along with her improving condition, have allowed for the removal of nearly all intravenous lines, and her face is now clear of tubes and tape, and is bruise-free. And while her eyes are still closed much of the time, she opens them more often, and she opens them wide and focusses on whoever is speaking to her. “Ne craignez pas d’être lent, craignez seulement d’être à l’arrêt.” (Proverbe chinois) Ce sont des petits pas, mais c’est du progrès, quand même. Hier quand je lui ai visité, elle a ouvert ses yeux, tourné sa tête vers moi, m’a regardé directement dans les yeux, et m’a offert un grand sourire. Comment ne pas réjouir de cela?

Alors, je mets une photo des fleurs, surtout parce que ces couleurs me font heureuse, mais aussi parce que j’achèterai des fleurs pour ma grand-mère pour son anniversaire. Flowers were banned in the ICU, but I believe that no such restrictions exist on the 5th floor. Now that my Baba’s awake more often, I want her to be able to see a burst of beautiful colours whenever her eyes are open.

La formule sacrée du positivisme : l’amour pour principe, l’ordre pour base, et le progrès pour but. -Auguste Comte

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Sober reality

Sunday, 13 August 2006 | 14:10

Notre vie durant, nous remettons à plus tard les grandes questions jusqu’à ce qu’elles soient devenues une montagne de questions et nous assombrissent. Mais alors il est trop tard. Nous devrions avoir le courage (envers ceux que nous devons interroger comme envers nous-mêmes) de les tourmenter sans ménagements, inexorablement, de questions, nous devrions ne pas les épargner, ne pas les tromper en les épargnant. Nous regrettons tout ce que nous n’avons pas demandé quand celui qu’il faut interroger n’a plus d’oreille pour ces questions, quand il est déjà mort. Cependant, eussions-nous posé toutes les questions, aurions-nous une seule réponse? Nous n’acceptons pas la réponse, nous n’acceptons aucune réponse, nous ne le pouvons pas, nous n’en avons pas le droit, telle est notre disposition affective et intellectuelle, tel est notre ridicule système, tels sont notre existence, notre cauchemar.

Thomas Bernhard

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L’évolution d’un été

Thursday, 10 August 2006 | 16:20

I think I’m beginning to get burned out.

It seems like such a selfish and inconsequential thing to say, when there is so much more going on in the world, so much suffering, so much seriousness… And I sit worrying about fatigue and an aching elbow? Mais je ne dors plus – seulement 3 ou 4 heures par nuit récemment. Et je ne mange pas bien du tout – un ou deux “repas” par jour, souvent de la nourriture peu appétisante du cafétéria à l’hôpital (sur la carte d’hier: macaroni au fromage et les “anneaux d’oignon” – quel repas merveilleux pour un service de santé, si nutritif et sain…). Si j’ajoute ça à ma déshydratation chronique (je vous jure, je ne suis jamais soif!), je me sens très malsaine ces derniers jours. Il va falloir que je me retire de la situation un peu. Which will be a bit easier, as things have progressed slightly. Yesterday my grandmother was moved from the ICU to the IICU – intermediate intensive care, a step down in care. Meaning she is stable enough not to warrant the critical care she needed before. Now the family is getting used to a new floor with new nurses and new protocols. There are only 4 patients in the IICU at one time, and 2 nurses, so the care is still very comprehensive, but there is just so much more breathing space, both physically and metaphorically. The beds are in one large, airy room, with curtains separating the patients. Each bed has a window, letting in natural light. The area is amenable to visitors, with plenty of room and chairs to spare – and visiting seems to be encouraged on this ward (unlike in the cramped ICU, where we more often felt like a nuisance). And also unlike the ICU, where there was always a dour, pessimistic mood hanging in the air, in the IICU the nurses speak of “when” – not “if”, and are eager to discuss future treatment plans – rather than refusing to talk about the future “in case there isn’t much of one”, or adding the caveat: “…but remember, things don’t look good.” The attitude is more positive, and I hope that rubs off on some of the family who have been worn down by the experience of the past few weeks. I’ve been one of the only ones refusing to “give up” on my grandmother and willing to give her all the time she needs to heal – which is odd, for a supposed cynic ;)

Dans la salle de service de réanimation, on pouvait visiter les malades 24 heures sur 24; mais sur le 5ème étage, il y a des limites: une occasion bienvenue pour ma grand-mère – et toute la famille – de se reposer un peu.

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Un grand monsieur

Wednesday, 9 August 2006 | 11:42

Que faites-vous quand vous n’allez pas bien, quand vous avez besoin d’un peu de réconfort? Pleurez dans votre oreiller? Mangez du chocolat en excès? Pour beaucoup de gens, y compris moi, faire du shopping aide à alléger les blessures d’âme. But this “retail therapy” is usually confined to coming home at the end of the day with arms full of bags and bags of new clothes and shoes, at least for women; not in my case, though. For me, an ideal way to cheer myself up is to spend a day in bookstores and music shops, picking up new novels, magazines, CDs and records. Of course, my budget doesn’t really allow for much of this type of thing, but once in awhile I do cave in to temptation, as I did the other day when I bought this album.

Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited is a curious little disc – 14 Gainsbourg tracks translated into English and sung by a hodge podge of celebrated alternative Anglo chanteurs. I had heard only one track before purchasing the album – I Just Came to Tell You That I’m Going, with Jarvis Cocker and Kid Loco – and have to admit it was an odd feeling. Cover versions are always interesting, but this project goes beyond simple reinterpretation. I have to admit, it is weird to hear these songs sung in English, complete with the flat, nasally accents of the (mostly) Anglophone artists. It is this quirk more than anything that makes the album’s sound truly unique. I believe the mark of a good cover version is the artist’s ability to make the song sound like his or her own; that if you were to hear the cover before the original it would fit so seamlessly with the artist’s voice and repertoire and style that one would never guess there was another version around. This album succeeds on this level. While I definitely prefer some tracks over others (notably Boomerang 2005, Requiem for Anna, I Love You (Me Either), L’Hôtel), each song has its merits, embodying the sound of the artist reinterpreting it.

This album isn’t so much Gainsbourg revisited, as Gainsbourg reinvented. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. On the whole, it’s an interesting and occasionally brilliant album. On the plus side, it will probably initiate a new generation to the true Gainsbourg sound, as people who bought this CD simply because their favourite indie artist is on it seek out the original versions, just to satisfy their curiosity. And that’s definitely not a bad thing!

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Fêtez…

Monday, 7 August 2006 | 19:02

Joyeux anniversaire, Nicolas!

(Je présente mes excuses – je ne sais toujours pas si ton anniv’ est le 7 ou le 8 du mois… :s Peu importe; j’espère que ta journée spéciale est sublime, qu’il soit lundi ou mardi.)

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Jour férié

Monday, 7 August 2006 | 15:10

12:40 – fall asleep. 4:10 – wake up. 4:30 – step into hot bath. 6:30 – step out of lukewarm bath. 8:12 – post meaningless note on blog, as I am still unable to slip back into the world of slumber. Today is the Civic Holiday, a day where one is supposed to celebrate one’s province and city – but in truth it’s just an excuse for a day off. Because, unlike many other civilised countries, here in Canada, August is not synonymous with “vacation” or “time off”. Here we are entitled to one week of holidays per year (though most companies offer 2) – none of these month-long absences common in many European countries. No, here the wheels never stop spinning, and so we depend very much on our beloved statutory holidays, those lone days off tacked on to weekends that occur approximately once every 6 weeks. So one could argue that the average Canadian in fact gets 3 weeks of holidays per year – it’s just that the 3rd week is spread out over 12 months. Of course, I am entirely removed from this equation for the time being, as my fracture is still healing. Hee hee.

Je n’arrive pas à cesser mes pensées – de quoi? De la vie, de la santé, de mes finances, de l’été, de ma grand-mère. Je me demande pourquoi je me sens plutôt malade, fatiguée et paranoïaque ces derniers temps. (La réponse est assez facile à deviner.) Je me demande comment c’est déjà le mois d’août, que nous sommes déjà le deuxième demi de l’année, que l’automne va bientôt se faire sentir, presque imperceptiblement. (Je sais, le temps coule, la vie continue, malgré nos épreuves.) Ces derniers mois de l’année, commençant par août, sont mes favoris. J’aime la dernière partie de l’été quand l’air est chaud et les gens semblent moins pressés. J’aime bien “l’été indien”, quand le mélange de les températures douces de l’été et les couleurs de l’automne fondent les frontières des saisons. J’adore l’automne, ma saison préféré. Et vous, les lecteurs et lectrices, devraient connaître mon amour pour la neige de l’hiver! Voici le moment où je deviens passionant; j’attends avec intérêt ce qui est devant moi: les nombreuses anniversaires d’aoùt, le retour au travail, le changement des saisons, l’Action de grâce, Noël…

Alors pourquoi me sens-je inquiète? (Eh oui, je sais: encore la réponse est assez facile à deviner…)

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Blogland

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  • Pastel Stories
  • Skyblog de Philnareff

Happy Wanderers

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Interactives & Inclassifiables

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  • Boing Boing
  • Bytech Forums
  • Cake Wrecks
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  • Once Upon A World
  • PoliFi
  • The New Yorker
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  • Translation: Word Reference
  • What’s On Winnipeg

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Spreading the love

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Tummy Temptations

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  • Bombance
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  • Saveurs du monde
  • Sweet & Sara

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