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 Day 6 #LeMidiEst23 

At Salin-de-Giraud, paused at the small monument to the Vietnamese workers who were taken by force and made to work like slaves in France from 1939-1952, among other things to plant the now famous Camargue rice.

I mention this disgraceful history in the book I #AmWriting, so I wanted to stop by and see this monument put up in 2014.

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 #WritersCoffeeClub Sep 27: What’s the strangest research you’ve done for your writing?

Probably not the strangest, but I remember looking up whether foxes can cry (as in physically shed tears). Apparently not. Also which colors they are capable of seeing.

And the amount of research I did just to name my characters could probably be described as strange, too.

I don’t even know where to start ranking all the stuff I’ve researched for this series. 
 #WordWeavers Sep 13: What animal would you like as a muse?

A donkey. We'd go on looooong walks to discuss in excruciating detail every little nuance of the story. Our walks and talks would be epic sagas, but by gourd we'd reach our destination come hell or high water! 
 #WordWeavers Sep 12: Side character POV: What do you find difficult to say to other people?

Mélissa: That I'm a girl AND a boy. Some of my friends know — I didn't have to tell them, they just knew — but I don't know how to tell others. How do you tell someone that you have two souls when they can only see your body?

My friend Nadia can turn into a fox, but I don't know if I want to change like that, because then people would just see a boy and that's no different than them only seeing a girl. 
 "Why aren’t we all being offered an autumn #Covid booster? It’s not cost-effective to keep Britain healthy."

A good question, which could just as easily be asked here in Denmark.

I remember Denmark was one of the best countries to handle the pandemic early on, but then it became politically unpopular to give even the slightest fuck and now, from what I can tell, we might be even worse than the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/08/autumn-covid-booster-britain-uk-vaccine-long-covid-economy