Ah, Colette — what would like be without Cheri and Gigi!!?

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“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”
—Colette

Happy birthday to Colette!  Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, better know as her pen name — “Colette” — was born today in 1873 in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, in the Burgundy Region of France.

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