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Before Tracee Ellis Ross was ‘Solo Traveling,’ she was getting lost in Paris. In our latest episode of ‘Meaningful Places,’ she puts her life on the map, tracing the globetrotting life that has made her who she is in this video. Pro tip, learn to speak a little French before making your way to Paris.

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00:00It feels like this makes you wanna talk like this.
00:02I need to read the news, Copa.
00:03Okay, so just a little tidbit of information
00:06about my time in Paris.
00:08The French was not on my tongue.
00:10Because I didn't speak French,
00:12it was a scary, scary place.
00:15I had a moment where I got off a bus,
00:19not in a place that I recognized.
00:22This was before cell phones, so it was payphone,
00:26and the payphones in Paris worked very differently
00:29than the payphones on the street in New York,
00:31and the coins, I couldn't figure out which one would go in,
00:34and I couldn't call home, and I didn't know what to do,
00:36and finally a lady held me, and I said,
00:38I don't know where, I'm lost, and I can't get home.
00:41She said, where do you live?
00:42And I said, the plaza on today.
00:45But I did make it home, and I'm still alive.
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