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Article: Lost & found.(The Last Word)
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- Commonweal
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- January 18, 2008
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Dear Mr. and Mrs. Norton, Warm greetings from the Society of Saint
Vincent de Paul, Paris.... The woman at the hotel with whom you left M.
S.'s wallet brought it to our shelter, and we returned it to him. On his
behalf, thank you for your honesty and efforts to make a poor man happy.
--Giovanna Taoussi, Communications Officer.
A few years ago, my husband and I went to Paris to mark our tenth anniversary. We left our five-year-old son with a sitter and jetted off to the City of Light, I with the subconscious hope of somehow assessing our marriage, he with the expectation of actually celebrating it. And why not? Museums, fine food, fine wine. Paris.
What I ...