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  • But she's also thinking about Belle Reve, papa's laugh in particular, and now the rustle of leaves from the Garden District.

    601 Bourbon Street LA Slugocki 2010

  • International families are mindblowing to watch -- the kids here speak French between themselves, maman's language with her, and papa's language with him -- and manage to keep it all straight.

    fifille - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • And on Saturdays, young men in linen trousers lined up to drink papa's bourbon, and get close to Blanche; flowers in her hair, eyes unfocused, why yes I'd like another drink you silly goose.

    Belle Reve LA Slugocki 2010

  • Then el papa's showing up on our shores - which doesn't bode well for what he'd doubtless claim as further rights to tax us.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • That broke papa's heart; citrus fruits, he had always told us, were the kings of all fruits.

    Memories of Green Jesse Darland 2010

  • In other words, papa's thesis is that sinners and saints, sacred and profane, divine and diabolical are expressions of the same singular consciousness.

    Gotham Chopra: Notes from My Father's (Deepak Chopra) Monkhood Ceremony 2010

  • In other words, papa's thesis is that sinners and saints, sacred and profane, divine and diabolical are expressions of the same singular consciousness.

    Gotham Chopra: Notes from My Father's Monkhood Ceremony 2010

  • That was nothing to the hate she felt for Sadie Gordon, the young Englishwoman her father hired to look after the children and teach them English; Louise, who was 10 at the time, learned her lessons well, but had a sharp ear for gossip and soon understood that her governess had also usurped her mother's place in papa's bed.

    Louise Bourgeois obituary 2010

  • My family moved often, about every three years because that was how long it usually took for papa's construction projects to be completed, and then it was on to the next one.

    Where Would We Be Without Our Mothers? 2010

  • In the words of the graffiti of France 68 "Never Work" on to papa's hand onto the railing, going out into it you go, onto the open, and then

    A Mess 2010

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