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Chicken Curry for the Soul: Marcelle's Guide to Spirituality in India
Chicken Curry for the Soul: Marcelle's Guide to Spirituality in India
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About Ian
About Ian
Ian’s hair has been gray from the time it first appeared on his bald baby head. Perhaps it grew that way as a reflection of the English sky, which, he complains, is always gray — the kind of gray that stinks like wet wool. His gray eyes look out from behind gray glasses (or, as they say in England, where he is from — grey.) His favorite color to wear is … gray. But being gray does not mean Ian is boring — not at all. Ian is a very thrilling shade of gray.
After moving to blue-skied California so he can wear shorts every day, Ian opened the Travel Maps & Thai Food Retreatery.© “Because nothing is better than eating a good Pad Thai,” he says, “while studying places where you can go and get lost.”
That’s how he met Marcelle. She came into the Retreatery© selling her self-published book Marcelle's Guide to Surviving in Amsterdam Without a Towel.
About Marcelle
About Marcelle
Marcelle has short legs, short hair and, sometimes, a short temper. But her history with Englishmen is long — stretching back to her first kindergarten crush on a little Brit called Duncan and his adorable use of the word, “Mummy.” Since then, like many Americans, she’s been a sucker for an English accent.
When Ian opened her Amsterdam guide, started reading and laughed in his English accent, Marcelle felt her first inkling of love. He offered to buy two copies and she asked him on a date. They had it right then in his store — looking at maps and eating Pad Thai with shrimp. Marcelle didn’t like shrimp — at least, she thought. But Ian coaxed her.
And. It. Was. Delicious!
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