“I want to make love to you like an Apollo.” Je veux te faire l’amour comme un Apollon. That’s a pickup line from Google Translate — nothing lost in that translation for the young American woman sharing an iPhone over her first Parisian dinner. Reading the screen, she wonders, “Is he going to try and [...]
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