Girlfriend with a thousand lives

My girlfriend Asjha. Champion in everything. In being funny. Refilling the copier when you have to piece together thirty scripts and actually really really need to go to the bathroom from nerves. Champion of abbreviations (her book club is called WDL, from Wisdom Through Reading, but Asjha calls it Warm Fat L*L), champion dancing out of tune to comfort you and champion of saying the perfect things when life seems bleak. But she is also a champion in having a thousand lives.

When I still worked in home care. When I was still a vegetarian. When I was still doing flamenco. When I was still working with children with Down syndrome. When I was still dating this and that person. Every time I discover something new about her.

By the way, she was also a champion in going on vacation to Greece. And then again a champion in reading books. About thirty a week, I guess.

Suddenly she became champion of France. With Ed, because she is also champion Ed. She even married him twice. They then suddenly became champions of buying a pharmacy in Campagnac-lès-Quercy. And champions of spending long summers in their second home.

About her life and her observations, she wrote a book that I just started and that I now want to continue reading. Because I am also a champion in something. In being crazy about her. Buy her book on Bol.com and we can have a little contest about who likes her the most.

Definitely an always-good gift for anyone who loves France. And Asjha, of course.

Et voilà! – Asjha van den Akker