I don't know if you have any idea what a high school in Paris is like in this day and age in the posh neighborhoods–but quite honestly, the slummy banlieues of Marseille have nothing on ours. In fact it may even be worse here, because where you have money, you have drugs–and not just a little bit and not just one kind. Muriel Barbery
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