The Bag That Carried a Life Coccinelle

Author: Eva Nechai

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The Bag That Carried a Life

She bought it when everything was just beginning.

She was twenty-three. Behind her — university. Ahead — Paris, an internship at a small publishing house, and a dream of becoming a writer. The Coccinelle bag sat behind a dusty window in an old Kyiv boutique. The color — warm caramel. The leather — as if it breathed. She couldn’t really afford it, but still, she emptied her card.
— “One day, I’ll be in Paris with this bag,” she told the shopkeeper. And herself.

And off they went.

Paris greeted her with rain. In the bag — a passport, one notebook, a letter from her mother, and a one-way ticke