"Ça va, Paris ?"

"How have you been in the last few hours? You looked after me so well for the past week that there was not a moment that I didn’t feel loved, and London was so welcoming this morning with its persistent rain, which I welcomed with my persistent smile..."

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"I ran two miles this morning and walked a little along the Seine, spying Notre Dame in the distance with giddiness in my body before picking up mini viennoiseries from the local boulangerie. I am now back in bed, sitting here not feeling blue, spilling my heart to you: Paris, Paris, que je m’en fou!"

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"That’s what I want, Paris – staying close. I’m staying close to you when the rain tiptoes on the skylight window in the morning, when water splashes the porthole of my room like a waving scarf, when I hear my footsteps on the barge floor in the middle of the night, when my breaths speak slowly to my mind, when tears gently cleanse my face…"

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"It’s quiet, Paris. The rain is dancing lightly on the pier and on the deck and I feel as light—ben, it’s just getting heavier all of a sudden—now it’s tiptoeing again—getting heavy again, and back to its lightness – you get the idea. Yet, all the same, it feels quiet in my world...."

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"A bientot, Paris!"

"I now feel so embraced while embracing all my Parisian phases—the ‘young and abandoned’ Dina, the ‘unhappily-married’ Dina, the ‘reborn and rebellious’ Dina, the ‘single and not on the dating apps’ Dina, the ‘insatiable Londoner girlfriend’ Dina, and the current phase I haven’t got a label for yet..."

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"What a night, Paris!"

"All the same, I feel such tenderness toward everything and everyone these days—yes, even you—especially you! I feel that I understand them and I want them to feel seen so that in turn they can see themselves, all that good and all the goods. I feel that I understand you and I want you to feel seen so that in turn you can see yourself, all that good and all the goods."

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"Happy new year, Paris!"

"And do you know that this is my 21st podcast?"

Links to the previous 20 titles, in the order as mentioned in this episode:

• I (IP27)
• Right place at the right time (IP34)
• Fading (IP26)
• Light, open, touched (Ip32)
• Unfolding (IP40)
• I don't miss you, Paris (IP21)
• Looking at you (IP39)
• Waves (IP30)
• Here and everywhere else (IP25)
• I have nothing, Paris (IP22)
• Madame est servie! (IP24)
• Il a neigé (IP36)
• Chez moi (IP29)
• I'm not home (IP28)
• Je vais bien, I think (IP23)
• It's not about you, Paris (IP31)
• I had a strange dream (IP35)
• Reprise (IP38)
• Si jamais, t'as ton coeur (IP37)
• Joyeux anniversaire to us! (IP33)

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"This is where we are, Paris. This is what we’re doing. I have asked for you and thus you exist for me – the you I have imagined so far. One by one, things are revealed to us that bring us closer to the vision—alright, too abstract for you?"

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"I’m looking at you—have you grown with me, Paris? Is that you allowing me to relax about not knowing what I’m going to do, or even where I’m going to live, come the new year? I’m here right now and I’m practicing my art; I’m writing and I’m acting again—I’m acting in Paris again! My daughter can hardly cope with how cool her ibu is! Well, maybe she can, but I still ‘eat’."

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"Bonjour, Paris!"

"Today I feel free. I have been walking with myself for the last few days and today I walk like someone in love. Little dances that I predicted last week have been translated into something more profound and more aligned with who I am, that is tears of joy...."

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