Accessible Gardening: My garden's a tight space..., 0 by carrielamont

carrielamont wrote:
LLOL, I have NO IDEA what to do next!
My sister seemed normal at birth, same parents as I have, had an aparently normal childhood. In HS where I took French she took Italian! She went to BU school for the arts (where I transferrred after outgrowing Pomona) but she did it the normal way, in 4 straight years. Sometime (her senior year, after she graduated, I dunno) she did a post-grad program in art restoration in Italy. I believe it was around this time that she began to suspect she was actually Italian. She met the Love of her Life, but when the 6 weeks or 6 months was over, she came home like a good American. After graduating on schedule she went back to Italy to be with the aforementioned LohL, only to find he had impregnated someone else and married her instead. Apparently the Church, being in Italy the way Rome is and all, has a rather strong hold over there. So he began divorce procedings right away, but in Italy you have to wait ten years or seven years or something. Women DON'T necessarily take their husband's last name and because of these crazy laws, lots of people live with whomever they please, not just whom they're married to. [I think except for the extremely wealthy, it's still mostly women with men.] [Trying to avoid the censor here.] Anyway she had daughter #1 in between my two; I think she is a year older than Nancy. Daughter #2 is 7. We all - Emma, 3 month-old Nancy, their father, me, my (then brothers, my mother, my father, he invited his girlfriend-du-jour - went over in 1994 for her wedding, at last. So her adopted country is Italy; she has two passports but her kids have one each. Her kids are actually her kids, not adopted. So she's my ONLY sister, but she's Italian now. For real, the people who live in her small town all think she's from some other part of Italy. It's terrifically provincial.

xxxxxx,
Carrie

This is we four siblings a few days ago. Very rare, for the four of us to be even on the same continent!