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Good morning!
It’s Saturday, and it’s the start of my very favorite two-week school holiday here in France. It’s called the Toussaint holiday, because it falls over La Toussaint, or All Saint’s Day. When I was teaching high school English here in my 20s, I remember being utterly floored that they gave us two whole weeks of vacation after school had only …