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I got home to see my larger family in France. I haven’t seen them since I left, 2 years and a half ago.

First stop in Bordeaux where my parents are. Then La Palmyre, next to Royan, on the west coast of the Atlantic. I got to meet for the first time with some ‘new’ little cousins, which kind of made me feel like I’m old.

In my bedroom in Bordeaux, I found some of my old audio tapes. My father’s car still has a tape player. I took the tapes and when going to join the rest of our people in La Palmyre (it’s about 1:30 hour drive), i could listen to my old tunes.

One of them was a ‘real’ tape that I had bought more than 10 years ago after seeing the show (musical): Starmania. I still love it. The other tapes were home recorded tapes. Mix taken out from the radio. I would leave the tape in my hifi, and when hearing a song I liked, I was just pushing the recording button and that was it, just adding the songs I liked, one after the other. Randomly, sometimes just half of the song, sometimes with the radio jingle… So much charm!