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Moving On
Sylvie and Lisa spent the next few days preparing for the trip. There were visas to arrange, clothes to buy and tickets to book. It would be a long journey. The first leg was from Clarksville to Charlotte in North Carolina, from where they would fly across the Atlantic to London Gatwick. They would spend the night in a bed-and-breakfast near the airport. The following morning, they were to take a morning flight across the English Channel and down to the south of France, landing in Nice. The two young women had asked if they could go via Paris, but when they heard that it would be cold and wintry in the north of France at the beginning of December, they decided to leave Paris for their return journey in the summer.
It was only a two-hour hop from London to Nice, and their pl
