If it’s a crime, then I’m guilty
August 6, 2022
This morning I had a realization that I’ve accidentally become Amélie. Although I love that movie, the resemblance is completely accidental.
Yesterday, the old cashier who gave me wheat pennies as change asked what I was going to do with the old photos I had bought. I honestly had no idea, aside from zine-y stuff, so I just thought of Amélie and said I’d put them in an album.
I also work at a café. Not in Montmartre, that’s for sure, and we serve coffee in giant Solo cups rather than petites tasses, but it’s a café.
I’m obsessed with strangers, and their stories, and wondering about ways I can make them smile. I’m obsessed with details...
Not ready for such a drastic haircut though. It just wouldn’t work on me!
American Amélie. Well, it’s a better nickname for myself than “Jerry Seinfeld's illegitimate, estranged daughter,” which I tearfully invented at the Frankfurt Airport a month ago. I don’t know what combination of jet lag, no-sleep, and desperation led me to come up with that one.
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