I grew up on the Jersey Shore, traveled all over the U.S. as a kid, was a bagel-eating New Yorker for 14 years, and moved to Rome in 2002; since 2005 I've called Montpellier, France home.  If…

I grew up on the Jersey Shore, traveled all over the U.S. as a kid, was a bagel-eating New Yorker for 14 years, and moved to Rome in 2002; since 2005 I've called Montpellier, France home.  If New York is my first great love and Rome is my one true love, Montpellier is the one I accepted a date with on a whim, and I couldn't get a taxi and showed up late, and the restaurant was closed and I went to another place and wound up getting some kind of food poisoning, and I lost my cell phone, and the kiss goodnight was clumsy, and I got its number wrong, but I woke up the next morning and realized I had kind of fallen in love.