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Five knuckleheads in a row. That's la petite Polly-Vous Français on the right.
Merry Christmas to my family. Guess what? Since Christmas arrives six hours earlier in France, I got to open my presents first!
La famille a few Christmases later. You can imagine how many more years I got to wear hand-me-down candystripes.