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Underneath A Chestnut Tree A Park In Paris ...

 FEEDING THE BIRDS, DEAR? An Extraordinary Afternoon in Paris Anne Frank & Edith Piaf A fictional encounter between two real women,  inspired by their lives, their words,  their music and the history that shaped them. Chapter One: The Little Sparrow PARIS Springtime. The sort of afternoon that makes one wonder why anyone ever bothers with winter. The chestnut trees were beginning to dress themselves in their finest green.  The flowerbeds were bursting with colour, the fountains were playing their familiar watery tunes, the great city was behaving as though it had never done anything more dreadful than overcharge an Englishman for a cup of coffee. Which, of course, was nonsense. Paris had seen revolutions, executions, invasions, occupations, uprisings and more political scandals than a respectable historian could comfortably fit into a lifetime. Yet every spring, she put on her prettiest frock, dabbed a little perfume behind her ears and pretende...
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