I will have the salade niçoise with seared tuna at my favourite French place in the West Village, with a glass of Chardonnay. My friend will have the mussels, served with the best french fries, and I will steal a few of those!
Elle*, meeting a friend
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You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.
Anna Akhmatova "White nights"
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