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When I was at boarding school,
I also studied whales.
They taught natural history
and I liked it a lot.
Bu at that school,
we had to go a little too often
to mass.
We were always having to confess.
Sometimes we didn't know
what to confess
and so we'd say
"I stole the snow."
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Dearest Reader
ReplyDeletePlease allow me the first comment.
This page is dedicated to Sabrina Impacciatore,
the Italian actress who portrayed THE MOTHER IMAGE
In The White Lotus, Season Two.
Sabrina's character was named "Valentina"
and she was the director of the White Lotus Resort
in Taormina, Sicily
https://www.hbo.com/the-white-lotus/season-2
Why did you insist upon having the first comment
Deleteon this page?
Because it was a matter of closure:
DeleteIt took me EXACTLY seven days to read
Natalia Ginzburg's "Autobiography"
and during the same seven days
I consummated the equally intoxicating
viewing of White Lotus, Season Two.
According to my binary beliefs, the HBO 7-episode series
and the Italian author's Family Lexicon gave me
a stunning and overlapping insight into
the country my four grandparents migrated from
Whateva...
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