The evening of 13 November began like many before it, I met some friends in a bar and we drank some beers. It could very easily have been a bar in one of my favoured drinking spots around Oberkampf or Saint Martin, but on 13 November I had been record shopping (one of the records we bought was "Imagine" by John Lennon) and decided to stay in the 12th arrondissement. Having felt a bit unwell, I was hesitant to make any evening plans at all and ummed and ahhed about it all day, before finally deciding to meet friends for quiet drinks at the last minute. Earlier that evening, as I walked with my boyfriend along the bustling Parisian streets - filled with people finishing work and gearing up for...
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