Americans in Paris show the pretty and gritty sides of France

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Photographer Jamie Beck in a picture taken in France, when she was pregnant with her daughter.

PHOTO: JAMIEBECK.CO/INSTAGRAM

PARIS • Four years ago, Ms Jamie Beck was a photographer living in Manhattan.
She was on a plane and had an anxiety attack and was convinced she would die. "The first thing I thought was, 'I will never know what it's like to live in France'," she says. "I swore if the plane landed, I will move to France."
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