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“I know what you’re talking about, it brings tears to my eyes. Listen,\u00a0if you have two minutes,\u00a0this reminds me of a curious little story that happened last spring.<\/p>\n
I was at the river, like every day, when I suddenly realized that I had really abused my neighbor’s cherry tree\u00a0the night before. \u00a0Every year it’s the same thing. Autumn arrives and I keep saying to myself: “You poor jerk, another year passes and you didn’t eat enough cherries, not enough strawberries, nor apricots or peaches etc. I”m like that… weak. Those beautiful Ardeche fruits, I could eat them until I bust.<\/p>\n
Excess, unfortunately, is my weak point and I pay for it! On that particular day I had to stop fishing pronto and get myself to the nearest bush to evacuate my bowels. Here’s the thing, I was fully concentrated on my task, crouched behind the bush when I hear a voice: “Ah! Good lord, here’s another parishioner like me, who ate too many cherries!”![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemouching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Le-Mouching-fly-fishing-caca.jpg?resize=244%2C299&ssl=1\")
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Straightening up a little I could see behind another bush a few yards away, the head of a guy who was clearly engaged in the same occupation that I was.<\/p>\n
In order to render the moment more convivial we engaged in conversation.<\/p>\n
“Are you a fisherman?”<\/p>\n
“Well, I try! You too?”<\/p>\n
“Me too. What kind of fishing?”<\/p>\n
“Fly-fishing.”<\/p>\n
“Fly-fishing? Ah, I would really like to try that, but it seems that it’s an Art. I would need someone to teach me, but at my age…!”<\/p>\n
At that moment we heard a voice from another bush.<\/p>\n
“Me too, the cherries…! God, the cherries, they are so good this year. It’s impossible to stop … anyway, if you want help learning to fly-fish, I would gladly teach you the rudiments…”<\/p>\n
And the conversation, worthy of Rabelais, lasted for a marvelous moment and was accompanied by sumptuous, savage farts and a profusion of intestinal music that our dear departed Stravinsky would surely envy.<\/p>\n
“Well then, my Luxembourgeois friend, what do you say to that? C’mon, rest assured that good fishing stories are there, crouch down a little and you can gather them up with a shovel… like the cherries on my neighbor’s tree; as for friends to listen to them, you’ll find one behind every bush.”![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemouching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Le-Mouching-fly-fishingCERISES.jpg?resize=750%2C901&ssl=1\")
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