Sarah's Key

I have only been back in the US a total of 10 weeks now since I made the decision to move back and yet somehow I have found it easy enough to get back into a routine of being American that I sometimes forget just how much I love France. I have several obsessions. My interest in France in the mid 1900's, particularly Paris, France during WWII, the French language (and how I wish I had really gotten over my pride and used it more when I lived there), the culture, the people, and mostly, the city Paris! The city of light. Oh, my love. Tonight I spent watching a movie called Sarah's Key which is quick depressing but oh so intriguing if you have the same interests as me. It's worth a watch for sure. Well, if you don't mind reading subtitles as about 75 percent is in French. Anyways, at the end of the movie, the main character has left her ex husband (who was French) and moved back to the US with her two daughters and says this, "It's weird, I really needed to come home but now I feel like a foreigner. So I guess France is a bigger part of me than I thought." This explains exactly what I've been trying to say but didn't know how. And thank you for reminding me just how much I love Paris and speaking French and the small apartments and courtyards, the bakeries, the people, the language. It all. I miss it oh so dearly. There is a saying, "you can take the girl out of Texas but you can't take the Texas out of the girl"... now I feel the opposite but with France. You can take me out of France but my love and longing for it will never fade away.