Québécois : il est presque français

The mind went a-wandering the other day during a session of heavy petting and French kissing. The room abounded with fleur-de-lis. For those unfamiliar with the term, here is what the WIKI has to say about it:

"The fleur-de-lis, also spelled fleur-de-lys (plural fleurs-de-lis or fleurs-de-lys), is a lily (in French, fleur and lis mean 'flower' and 'lily' respectively) that is used as a decorative design or symbol."

He told me that people had seen one in his home (or somewhere) and assumed that--since he is French-Canadian--he must want them overflowing throughout his home and life. Turned out it was quite far from the truth, but he didn't want to offend the gift giver, so he would take the symbol and display it somewhere. I had a similar event in my life when folks learned that I was born in the Chinese year of the pig and then also learned that I was (at the time) into animal rescue. I got pigs emblazoned on anything and everything.

Pigs, BTW CAN be(come) quite overwhelming in one's life.

But as we kissed and made out among the symbols of his heritage, I had imagined French DNA entering my body. I was now carrying the other red, white, and blue, and thought of mousse, the boat ride on the Seine, and the scene from Casablanca when folks stood up during the rendition of La Marseillaise and sang,
"Allons enfants de la Patrie
"Le jour de gloire est arrivé !"

Of course, this is a wild flight of fancy, since the kisser is not directly from France. Sometimes I wonder if the roles were reversed, what historic images might go through his/their mind during a kiss.... scenes from Anatefka, a fortnight's ship journey across the Atlantic, Hebrew prayer while facing east, or newer images of life in the New World.

Then... when I am composed and more level-headed, I say to myself, "Self! Chances are that most of what you got from this mouth-to-mouth exposure/explosion is residual food scrapings from between his teeth. That would have been taquitos, beans, rice, and some cilantro/culantro.

Just a thought in the moment