I have a confession to make. I have multiple personalities. It is the fate of many people like me who grow up bilingual or multilingual. But you know what? I like being French one day, Dutch the next and American the rest of the time. I find myself being able to put on many different attires. Even though I am not native French, I moved to Paris when I was 4 years old and that almost makes me a native speaker of this beautiful language. It makes me able to watch French movies without subtitles, read the best literature in the world in its original form and doomed me to speak all other languages with a French accent, which sometimes people find charming and other times annoying. Since all one’s memories are closely intertwined with the language one speaks, when I put on my French attire I immediately am transported to the world of my childhood. I used to walk home from the bakery with a still-warm baguette under my arms, and the unique smell of the Parisian streets in my nose. I like ...
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