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On a trip to Italy via Paris last month, my travelling companion and I went to the Gare de Lyon at sparrows to catch a train to Rome. We badly wanted coffee.
I came to coffee late in life and am infantile and uncool in my love of frothy buckets of what is effectively a hot coffee milkshake.

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