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A St. Patrick’s Day Reflection on Being Stranded in Rosses Point, County Sligo

Waiting On The Shore — Rosses Point, Co. Sligo | Author: Enrico Strocchi (flickr)

The year was 2009. ’Twas a simpler time, to be sure. I had just graduated, against all odds, from a university in Montréal and was living with my French (France-French, not Québecoise—that’ll become relevant in a moment) girlfriend who, against all odds, would go on to marry me…