Article: The perspectives of a Parisian staying in Laguna Beach, Calif. (Originated from Orange County Register)

When Martine Desaintjean arrived in Laguna Beach, Calif., to live in my house, she was a stranger from Paris. By the time she left almost two weeks later, she had seduced the neighborhood _ making friends with the locals and traveling with them up and down the coast. 
A teacher of English, Desaintjean has traveled throughout Europe, often by exchanging her Paris apartment for a place in Italy or Great Britain. 
``It is something that helps me know a country and meet very, very different people,'' Desaintjean says. 
This summer, for her first trip to the United States, she set up exchanges with three couples in Boston, San Francisco and Laguna Beach for a total of ...

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