Last night at the Elysée

John Murray was doing "2900 rpm in 6th" in his Ferrari Maranello on the 405 while Gérard Ismaël was charming Jan Bursey's friend Ellie Vera. After my son Sean showed Gérard a photo of a Thomassima on his iPhone, Gérard promptly put in an order for three Thomassima IIs and went back to keeping Ellie entertained. After I repeated Danny Hutton's (Three Dog Night) story about doing a concert with Little Richard, Jan and I traded anecdotes that revealed two degrees of separation where we crossed

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