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"Had a little domestic emergency. Not worth going into great detail, but it has to do with this fellow and his wandering ways. ANYWAY, fresh off my pet rescue mission, I am weirdly overwhelmed with holiday spirit. Maybe it&amp;amp;#8217;s because I&amp;amp;#8217;m anticipating the annual trip home to LA on Thursday, and I&amp;amp;#8217;m so much further from home than before, but all I seem to be observing amongst my adopted fellow Parisians are Christmas decorations and cute little families going about their day. Tossing on an ill-fitting amateur anthropologist hat, I have to ask myself, Are these families different? Is their holiday spirit different from ours? Depends on where you go. For those of you who remember Maya (my very dear friend&amp;amp;#8217;s 10 year old daughter), she lives in a exceedingly hipster neighborhood in the Marais, in the 3rd arrondissement. Here&amp;amp;#8217;s what Christmas in her groovy section Paris looks like. Trendy dad was actually an exemplar of attentive parenting, playing with his fussy two year old the whole ride. I couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t stop watching them, and among the many thoughts I had, the one fashion-related one was this: what did trendy parents look like when we were kids? My folks were chic but not really seriously fashion forward. Who here had totally trendy parents? When you look back at the pics of them now, are they just absurd, or inspiring and fun and great? Were they fashion victims or retro superstars? &amp;amp;#8212;Alex"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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