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Sidi Bou Saïd is about 15 kilometers north of Tunis, the capitol. My earliest memories start here. When we arrived we had a 1946 Pontiac which was admired by a local prince named Affif. He wanted the car for his son, so he offered to buy it from my father for the same price my father paid for it. He also threw in the use of his 14 room beach house while we sere in Sidi Bou Saïd. So we lived in the prince's beach house, on the Mediterranean Sea from 1947 to 1948. At the time, I spoke French as well as I did English. When my parents would go out, they would leave me at the prince's palace and I was kept with the other kids in the hareem or harem. So I am one of the few men I know (actually the only one I know) who has spent nights in a harem. So young, so much to do...sigh. |
