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Le Substack de Lorraine

Lorraine Tilbury

Exploring the influence of my French mom's culture on my upbringing even though I initially did not speak French and didn't get to know France until I went to study there when I was 18, Interspersed with glimpses of my mom's WW2 & postWW2 French/USA life.

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"🇺🇸 If you pray hard, God will bring your father back. / 🇫🇷 Si tu pries fort, Dieu ramènera ton père."

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My grandfather's letter / La lettre de mon grand-père

My grandmother Jeanne circa 1920 in front of my grandfather's butcher shop, with the first of her 10 children (left to right): Suzanne, Simone, and Jean. (From our family photo archives)


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Mom speaks...in French too

Update: I've added my mom's original text in French at the end of this post.

On today's date, February 1st, ten years ago, my mom Michèle, “Michou” as her family called her, left this earth. She was 82. What better way to commemorate her...

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Remembering my mother Michou - "the girl no one talks about"

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My mom Michou (left) and I (right), shortly after she moved back to the States with my Dad in the mid 1980s, ending a 15-year stay in Europe. I stayed in France.

My French mom's legacy

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    Happily married multilingual Europeanized American, MENSA, veterinarian, toxicologist Horsepowered PathFinder, and wannabe writer of a fictionalized version of my family history. Instagram & Twitter: @ltilbu No direct messages!

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