This is a park, right across the street from the Eiffel Tower in Paris. In front of the building to the right is a large staircase. When I went to Paris this past May, one of our last night's we went to dinner and then to this park to watch the Eiffel Tower "twinkle." The staircase was full of people, about 200. They were all sitting there watching a musician sing and play guitar. When we walked past, he was singing "Wonderwall" by Oasis. We stood off to the side and watched and I was singing along, when he invited me up to the microphone to sing with him, which I did. After that song, he asked me my name and where I was from, and if the woman I was with was my mom. He then announced that I would be singing a song for my mom, since we were from America. He began to play "Sweet Home Alabama." My mom and I actually love that song, and I started singing along with him to my mom and then he took over so I could dance with my mom. Within 20 seconds of my mom and I dancing together, like we always do at family weddings, (like Americans,) the majority of the people that were just sitting there watching got up and started dancing with us. To me it was personal, because it was a moment shared with my mom, with one of our traditional family songs, and was in a very public area, but we got the public involved, too.
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