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My mind roaming around in foreign lands always picks up a stranger or two, in the form of songs. I think this may be one of my many playlists while living in paris...

01) Rufus Wainwright - Leaving for Paris - As countless movies have taught me, the only sensible reason for me to flight off to Paris is to forget about an impossible love. Rufus has been there, I am sure. He will console me during those first days where i find myself juggling the excitement and heartbreak.

02) Joni Mitchel - Case of you - Unpacking in my small, small bedroom. I find your letter. I realize the clothes, the letter, the plane ticket, the mix CDs, all, have become a case of you.

03) Ella Fitzgerald - April in Paris/I Love Paris - I finally step out into the City of Lights.... oh my. (Will the Lights be Blinding, though?)

04) Yeah, yeah, yeahs - Our time - Vibrations of the people, of the city, of jetlag propel my feet to skip happily down the streets.

05) Al Bowlly - Guilty - must sit down and nourish my body. This song plays over a speaker at the stereotypical sidewalk cafe. It amusingly reminds me of playing the Amelie soundtrack over and over again as I worked an 11 hour shift at that clothing store in Savannah, GA.

06) She & Him - Sentimental Heart - I spot a dreamy vintage fabric shop, hidden in the alleys. I muse that Zooey Deschanel would just love to shop here, as I know she's a vintage girl. I realize I am feling a bit loney, so I resolve to make friends.

07) Feist - 1,2,3,4 - I make new friends, all from paris, all from the world, all searcing for that which I am searching for as well. After a few drinks, we re-enact Feist's colorful video. I play Feist, with a crazy blue outfit I bought at the hidden vintage shop.

08) Jeff Buckley - Lover, you should've come over - It's only fitting I must have a night where I break down and miss him. It happens.

09) Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain - Bah, silly crying myself to sleep. Let's hop on a train and visit Amsterdam! Or Berlin! Or my friend Ruth in Alicante! Or El Bardo in Norway (this might involve a plane)!

10) Fiel a la Vega - Boricua en la Luna - As i glance out of my train window, I see fields of sunflowers. They truly do stretch out to the Sun. It is then I realize how far I've come from my own little island... and how it always travels with me {crap, writing that just made me tear up like an idiot}

11) Edith Piaf - Non Je Ne Regrette Rien - Back in Paris. Yikes, spent a little too much traveling... but I sure as heck don't regret it!

12) Billie Holiday - As time goes by - Time to head back to Life. But as my Rick said once... We'll always have Paris. I will, I will, Rick.

*LE SIGH* Seriously... how wonderful would it be. Someday, someday.

I lie. There is nothing more that I want right now than to be Back Home. Pasar un dia en la playa con mami, Pedro, Agmar, Mary, Milton, los nenes, abuela, abuela ge~na, neguita, daisy y su ganga, kendra y su otra ganga, titi lizzy, chela, mirne, tio, tio norman, tio giovanni, tio henry, marian, titi monsa, abuelo cheo, abuela lydia, janice, lola, cynthia, viviana, liliana, ivonnette, sus respectivos machos, ruth, laura, laura ox, el rafa, la josefina, Bruno Diaz, genesis y matthew con minnie, mis nuevas amistades, mies viejas amistades, mis futuros sobrinos, primos, hijos, lo que sea. Pero quiero estar en casa.