Knowing that I had just turned 23 they very kindly held a birthday celebration on the Saturday night. I had been to the bakery earlier in thw day and couldn’t resist taking photos of the tart selection, especially the glossiest, rosiest raspberry tart I’d ever seen. Well, didn’t somebody just sneak back there later and grab it? It came out after dinner, full of sparklers and big ‘23’ in candles, and a funny little franglaise edition of ‘Happy Birthday’. I was thoroughly tickled and THEN they gave me a birthday present. It was a bottle of Dior perfume, Miss Dior, their new fragrance ‘L’eau’. It just shocked my socks off because the ad campaign for this perfume had been filling Vogue magazines back home for months and months and I had torn out these ads of this stunning model, floating above the rooftops of Paris, Eiffel tower featured in the background, holding onto a bunch of pastel coloured balloons. I’d even discovered the television ad for it on You Tube. It’s directed by Sophia Coppola and features a song sung by Brigette Bardot, ‘Moi, je joue’. (Me, I play.) I’d play the ad on loop whenever I was getting fed up with work, justifying another Saturday night at home to save money for Paris or generally feeling mopey. I crossed my fingers it was a sign all would go well.
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