malgré les circonstances
Monday, January 24, 2011
Look closely and you will see the man in the reflection. I'm looking closely too.
malgré les circonstances (mal gray lay sir cohn stahns)
: in spite of circumstances
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A Day in a French Life... by Kristin Espinasse
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La Vie en Prose
Looking back one day
I will
appreciate
that
malgré les circonstances
I wrote
It shook outside
I shook inside
and yet
I typed
or, malgré tout,
... I tried to.
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