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2008 Family Portraits
Not in any particular order, this page features a collection of portraits of us in 2008. That’s what this website is all about, after all! Rather than adding good portraits to preexisting pages…
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La famille de Marie-Hélène !
Marie-Hélène’s family were kind to us all during our initial years together in France. There was a flattering curiosity about us, expressed with a French reserve but nonetheless expressed, in particular about…
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La Grée
La Grée will be our vacation home forever, in my mind at least. The first version of this page was written in French with a lot of help from Marie-Hélène. During the…
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Marie-Hélène Berhaut (born and raised in Paris)
I have to admit that it would be very hard for me to paint any kind of complete and balanced portrait of Marie-Hélène at this point, even a miniature one. In part,…
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Maman
Being a mother is the center of Marie-Hélène‘s life. She was the office manager at Kevorkian & Rawlings, the law firm where we met in Paris, and has been at various times…
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Stamping
During the course of our lives together, Marie-Hélène finally began to have some real time for herself as the older children became more self-sufficient. She had been the only taxi driver for all the…
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Family Groups
The hardest pictures to get were ones of all eight of us together. And it got harder over time for the simple reason that our four older children had better things to do than…
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Brocéliande
In the interior of Brittany, the peninsula that is the westernmost part of mainland France, France’s Cornwall if you will, is la Brocéliande, the magic land of Merlin and, if you believe the…
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Maman Fille
This is a relationship made in heaven, although it may have been forged a little in hell. That’s often the case if you think about it. The more that you go through…
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Les copains de Marie-Hélène . . .
D’abord, les plus sérieuses, Camille et Amélie en état de grace, halloween 1999. We were spoiled by Amélie, as were the children. She was a student locally who moved in with us…
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Bisous!
As we guys of the male gender know (thank you, Dave Barry!), there are moments of warmth and affection which simply cannot be avoided. This shot, of Alban wincing in the vice-like grip…
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Our Wedding: May 24, 1997, St. Hilarion, France
Here we are, at the reception in La Bellanderie, our lovely home in Saint Hilarion, southwest of Paris on the old road to Chartres. The French civil service had done its duty, and it…
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Fabi, Jean et les quatre filles !
The Fabi-Jean family, four children and from Paris, is very partial to the USA. And not just because Fabienne and Jean’s wedding took place in Las Vegas about nine months before ours. Regretfully, we did…
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Blending or agitating or churning, depending on the day . . . .
When any couple moves in together, there is a lot for each to get to know in the other. In our case, we never had the time! No, that’s not what I mean! I…
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How I met your (step)mother!
I started work on March 2, 1987 at Kevorkian & Rawlings, the law firm which had hired me in New York to work as a lawyer in Paris. Jack Kevorkian had offered me the…