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Parlez-vous français?  About a month ago I was in France, driving around the idyllic Normandy countryside.  My companions were my twenty-two year old son and my sweet, but feisty eighty-five year old aunt.  Blue skies, rolling hills, little humidity, temperatures ranging from the upper seventies to the lower eighties, abundant farm fields and pastureland, cows – lots of cows, and no mosquitoes – that’s right, NO mosquitoes – Normandy is awesome!  For me, it’s pretty much what heaven will be like.             For two weeks my aunt fed us – simple and delicious French fare – cheese, cream and baguettes.  I didn’t want to exhaust my aunt or bore my son, so we would have these little road trip excursions seeing the sights of Normandy.  Normally, I like driving.  Imagine being in a rental car driving stick on narrow, winding, hilly roads with aggressive European drivers.  Now imagine a...