“When the gossip got really good, my grandmother would switch from English to French. And the rest would be in French, so that little eavesdroppers couldn’t hear the rest of the story. I knew that one day I would learn French, because French was the gossip language. All the good parts happened in French.”
—Eugene Walter,
recalling his childhood in Mobile, Alabama.
Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
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