Hello Rita, Thank you for replying to my comments. I lived in Metz for four wonderful years across the road from a French military Air base in a small farm house apartment when I married, and when single, I lived at the base of a small mountain in the outskirts of Metz, called, Tournabride. I visited the Cathederal in Metz, as well as spending time along the Mossel, and in the many well cared for parks in and around Metz. In my visits there I find so little has changed that the waltz down memory lane is further enhanced by that lack of change. There are families in central NH with the name Metz, seeing it displayed floods my memory banks. I am smiling at your suggestion that I return to seek another wonderful Luxembourger. At this moment in time I am in the serious throes of packing up, selling off my self built writers retreat in the forest of NH, and living out my days in Paris,France. I am seventy years young; and for once I want to live out my passion of sitting on a balcony above the streets of Paris sipping a demi tase of bitter coffee and pounding out the worlds greatest tome. All the while listening to the cacophony of life in the City of lights and love. The novel may well be a semi autobiographical tale of my four years as a young American soldier tasting all that post occupation Europe had to offer a young man in search of himself. I have returned a few times over the yers and each time I fall deeper and deeper in love with all Europe has to offer.Four years ago I took a book to Parisian publishers that expressed an interest in my queries, a month of shmoozing produced nothing for the book, but the intangible rewards to me were in convincing my innerself I should be there and nowhere else on earth. Time and the housing market will tell. Take good care, and feel free to write anytime Rita, ericwrites@aol.com

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