Proustian moment #4: A reminder of my early professional ambitions

I emailed the post on ice cream and music to my childhood best friend Sofia, and she emailed back this morning from Paris with a recommendation (Martine Lambert from Deauville, now with a small shop on 192 Rue de Grenelle in the 7th) and a hilarious ambition that we shared as pre-teens:

"Do you remember when we wanted to get summer jobs at Haagen-Dazs on 8th Avenue? Our plan was to show up every morning at work with gym mats so that we could do sit-ups on the floor inbetween customer scoops."

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