CHAPTER 43
Although it still seemed impossible to me, my brother got engaged. Seriously this time, he specifically pointed it out on the phone. After all, I got married too, and I would have never thought it possible. But he didn’t do it for lack of an alternative. Even more incredible, his girlfriend was a theatre actress who had some parts in a soap opera. Her name was Marianne. So we were waiting for Alain and Marianne for lunch.
Our house overlooked the Champs-Élysées. In a short time I had become a splendid Parisian. Perhaps the fact of not having roots helped me to adapt more easily to changes, a bit like the chameleons that change skin according to situations, good at camouflaging in the environment.
Geoff had had more difficulty living in France but had agreed to move. I wouldn’
