Glad to hear you are feeling better, but...
to which of the things the French do refer? Drink red wine? Surrender? Talk funny? Move to America and become my ancestors (um, that would present some problems for me)? Collect unbeleivably great art? Eat very, very well? Refrain from exessive prudery?
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Sometime you the windshield, sometime you the bug, sometime you the driver you turn on the windshield washer you keep going.