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The house in Antwerp was a big beautiful house with a balcony.
I used to spend hours watching the cars go by. Maybe ten to twenty an hour on that very large avenue .
Avenue de France was the […]
All of them wanted caustic soda. A ton, five tons, a hundred tons .
The guy from South Africa had a boat in Antwerp. A Liberty ship for ten thousand t ons of calustic soda .
That was quick , I am going to be rich in a minute .
So I went to Solvay […]
Une petite histoire d’amour .
I just returned from England and I was preoccupied because my parents lived near the Gare du Nord.
Rue Destouvelle 192 and after living like a prince in Wales and in Devonshire , it was very sad to see my parents and my sister and my brother live there.
So […]
Lucie was born two years later but my father was very ambitious and he moved to Antwerp where he bought a huge house at number 72 of Avenue de France.
With a wonderful balcony and three floors plus the basement .
This is where the Tank was born and also Ruben Souroujon.
When I was […]
Trazigne est une ville a la frontiere belgo francaise .
Une ville tellement petite que meme dans Google on ne peut pas la trouver .
C’ est la que l’autobus de Paris avait debarque my father and my mother .
He had a large package of very cheap dresses with a label “Made in Paris […]
My father was born in Constantinople on the 22nd of February 1881 .
He also was born on the 22nd of February 1877, and on the 22nd of February 1869 .
It all depended on the war that was going on , either against the English or the Kurds or the Greek or the Armenians […]
The bus arrived at the Waldorf Astoria at 10:30 .
We were all ready and thirty people , 23 immediate members of the family and seven friends boarded a large bus which had a toilet at the back .
Alessandra and Nicolas were missing .Alessandra was in Beijing studying business administration and Nicolas […]
I was born in Antwerp on the fifteen of February 1922 .
Make it the fourteen .
That makes it more interesting as every year they celebrate San Valentine on my birthday Music,Parties, and nice presents .
I had curly red hair , but my father cut it when I was five year old with a huge […]
It settled on the railings of the balcony, picking on the geraniums that Nelly had planted .
It was happy and chanted –
It was seven am and Nelly opened slightly the window , very quietly so as not to frighten it .
It kept chanting for few minutes and then flew away .
The […]
It is very nice to sleep
You don’t hear a beep
The world can disappear
You have nothing to fear
It is very nice to then wake up
And be ready for your first cup
Tequila , tequila , this your faith
Drinking until night and at eight ,
Go back […]
