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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.

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I'm a third-generation Miamian. I'm fond of it. I'm an expatriate, so it's the only American city I can still legitimately claim.

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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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The main thing my bookcase says about me is that I'm not French.

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Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place.

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I spend much of my free time listening to podcasts of American comedians talking to each other.

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A lot of French comedy is satire.

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The French aren't known for being hilarious. When I told Parisians I was interested in French humor, they'd say 'French what?'

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Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and the government is to blame.

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Not many foreigners move to Paris for their dream job. Many do it on a romantic whim.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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