Back to the Gipsy Theme. This is for vmaria and all who like this specific theme.
Why "guy next door"... Well because at least in France today we can't always guess or know already who comes from the Gipsy community, either in big towns
or on the country-side. Assimilation has played its full part (for many centuries), for most Sinti, Manouche, South France Gipsies, in spite of prejudiced people and what medias tell us.
So José could very well be that Gipsy (Manouche here for me) getting on well with others, Gadje (non-Gipsies), be living among others in a small village, have his own
small business as plumber, joiner or mechanic. And "Are you Gipsy" would...
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