By dawn, I'd wake up to the soft gurgle of the fountain on the Place Edmond Rostand.

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Sometimes I was drinking a bottle of whisky and I couldn't even get drunk, so I'd go onto two bottles of whisky a day, wake up, fall asleep, wake up, start again.

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Occasionally, she'd wake me up during the night to let me know that I'd crossed it.

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