The Bridge

by Jill Cox

  And finally – to Kelly Barnes, Meg Frost, Maury Hebert, Robin Hutson, Catherine Jones, Nathalie Lonsdale, Nikki Lowrey, Kerrie O’Mara, Julie Pham, and also to Jack Aalborg, April Beauboeuf, Emily Bentzen, Bruce Ford, Andrew Gillies, Heather Hartley, Todd Howard, Meredith Hubble, Greg Leidner, Tomàs Martin, Karen Prezioso Marx, Jenn Merritt, Amy O’Neil, Josh Saunders, Matthew Chandler Slack, Jennifer Spaulding, Raymond Truong and Katie Wood: I could have written this book a hundred thousand different ways, and it would never have captured our time accurately. So I left in the magical coffee machine, but deliberately left out so much more.

  No doubt you are the only people in the world who understand why those days across the Atlantic changed all the days afterward.

  In the Paris of my mind, you are always there, eating lunch with me in the Jardin de Luxembourg, walking uphill both ways in the snow during the month-long Métro strike, or sitting beside me on the middle bench of the Pont des Arts, watching the sun set over the Seine.

  You, chers amis, are my bridge.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Jill Cox pursued a Bachelor’s and then a Master’s degree in French Language and Literature so she could study abroad in Paris (twice), then taught high school French so she could convince others to join in the fun. A native Texan, Jill spends her days drinking more coffee than necessary and her free time writing stories about the people and places she loves best. Read more at jillcoxbooks.com, or follow Jill on social media @jillcoxbooks.

  COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

  © 2016 by Jill Cox and Tower 19 Press

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the author. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to places, events, organizations, and/or persons living or deceased is purely coincidental.

  ISBN 978-0-9982200-1-7 (digital)

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