I decided to make the change after seeing someone in a layout community do the same. I thought, "Well, hey now, I want to be pretentious, too!"
One day, I'll tell the story of my dad's plot to turn me into a little Francophile.

Thank you! You know, I felt a bit strange with writing the interactions on the dining car, as it was almost villainizing the married couple for their joy over the end of the war, but I can't help but think of how that would be for Fred. He's never going to escape what he had done and who he was; any little detail or mention is going to dredge it all up for him. Crawling into his head and figuring out he'd function in the world if he had survived that night brings me much enjoyment (and figuring Shosanna out, too; her trauma gets center stage in part 10).

Also, I had recently read a memoir from a French woman who worked with the resistance, and her outright hatred of the Germans was amausing, though jarring. I understand how she felt that way, but I can't help but feel for the average German citizens, too.