Like Europe?

"And, so," she said," you like living in Europe?"

And, I, wishing to be agreeable to so agreeable a person--or because
it was the easiest answer?--said, "Oh, yes...."

But if the truth be told, it would be more accurate to say:

that today I see no other alternative--at least in the immediate present...

and, perhaps, I feel no longing to return to the Puritan land of capitalism...

But most truly, I had, once upon a time in the past, a long long time ago,

rather fanciful notions of what life would be like in Europe..

long ago when I did not know what I know now...