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“ Whatever the unknown in Europe, it had to be better than the known in a small town, where truth was hidden behind smiles, pleasantries, and an abundance of stretch lace at weddings. Whatever, the yet-to-be-written truth about her own life, it seemed certain to be waiting elsewhere on a blank page, somewhere people made no attempt to predict the future based upon a person's past. Quote from: A Summer Abroad, Mrs. Duchesney's First Real Mysteryc. 2013 Peggy Kopman-Owens ”

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In Paris, the dance was everything. The dance of romance was what a man could remember in his old age. Didn’t all young Americans come to Europe in search of that kind of romance?

~ Peggy Kopman-Owens

The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.

~ Peggy Kopman-Owens

This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.

~ Peggy Kopman-Owens

There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.

~ Peggy Kopman-Owens