BACCALAURÉAT GÉNÉRAL ANGLAIS LVI Séries ES S Septembre Durée heures Coefficient 8ANSEME AG3 L'usage des calculatrices et de tout dictionnaire est interdit

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BACCALAURÉAT GÉNÉRAL ANGLAIS— LVI Séries ES-S Septembre 2008 Durée : 3 heures - Coefficient 3 8ANSEME/AG3 L'usage des calculatrices et de tout dictionnaire est interdit. After the engagement1, Pranab Kaku and Deborah began drifting out of our lives. They moved in together, to an apartment in Boston, in the South End, a part of the city my parents considered unsafe. We moved as well, to a house in Natick. Though my parents had bought the house, they occupied it as if they were still tenants, touching up scuff marks with leftover paint and reluctant to put holes in the walls, and every afternoon when the sun shone through the living-room window my mother closed the blinds so that our new furniture would not fade. A few weeks before the 5 wedding, my parents invited Pranab Kaku to the house alone, and my mother prepared a special meal to mark the end of his bachelorhood. It would be the only Bengali aspect of the wedding; the rest of it would be strictly American, with a cake and minister2 and Deborah in a long white dress and veil. There is a photograph of the dinner, taken by my father, the only picture, to my knowledge, in which my mother and Pranab Kaku appear together. The picture is slightly blurry; I remember Pranab Kaku explaining to my father how to work the camera, and so he is captured 10 looking up from the kitchen table and the elaborate array of food my mother had prepared in his honor, his mouth open, his long arm outstretched and

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