It's Never Too Late to Bloom

"A few years ago, I went to see a psychic, as all reasonable people in Paris do when they're hitting a wall. I was in my thirties and still clueless about my purpose in life. I had barely sat down when the psychic (an American) announced: 'You don't need to worry, you're a 'late bloomer'. Everything is going to happen later in your life.'

Late Bloomer quoi? What the psychic didn't know was that there is no translation for 'late bloomer' in French. In the land of La vie en rose, where the...