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Cough Like A French Girl

Cough Like A French Girl

Imagine trying to gently cool an extremely tiny spoonful of soup.

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Apr 07, 2022
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a stock photo of a French woman coughing

Last night I tweeted about the French pulmonary therapists who taught me how to cough/not cough this past weekend while I was hospitalized in Paris with pneumonia, and how the revelation of doing so was sort of life changing. I will never see coughing the same way again. Some people wanted to know more, but I was …

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