>>>>>>I have no idea what that means, but my bullshit detector tells me that SG is not who or what she says she is or if a very very strange person.
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>>>>Are fake email addresses allowed on UT these days? In this case the purported email domain milano.com seems to lack a mx record and therefore cannot possibly receive email for any address.
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>>>>The other interesting element is that earlier this year, Sophia mentioned Armistice Day as a day of sadness and remembrance... except that while others may be commemorating the end of WWI on 11 November, Swiss experience of war is somewhat different and 11/11 in Bern is a date of brass bands and flamboyant costumes to mark the start of Carnival season. Such Swiss eccentricity may not be so easy to spot if your knowledge of such things derives solely from internet searches, but that's the fact of it. I suppose you might assert that Sophia has an Italian background (as evidenced by the charming "si" and "grazie" she sometimes used to include in posts) and is speaking from that perspective, except that Italians commemorate Armistice Day on 4 November, not 11 November.
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>>>John, you are very much on the money. She is not from Italy but her parents were. She has lived her entire life in the U.S. but speaks fluent Italian.
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>>>She is one of the most captivating people I have ever met in my life. Very smart, creative, successful, caring. You just can't necessarily trust what she tells you. As she said to me once, "I have been dramatic from birth."
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>>>That's it for me on this topic. I am trying to put her out of my mind.
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>>Now I can't :). Reminds me of a joke Paul Simon (of Simon and Garfunkel) said at his concert I attended in 1983. He said, "A psychiatrist asked me once, - Do you ever look at your stool after you go to the bathroom? I said, No, but from that point on .... "
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>I don't get that and am not sure I want to ;-)
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>Thank you, BTW, for clarifying that it was the Paul Simon of Simon and Garfunkel, as opposed to that other Paul Simon ;-)
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>Did you watch the Patriots game Sunday night? I am sure you didn't like the outcome but wow, what a game. When the 49ers went up 31-3 it looked like a statement game for them. Somehow Brady brought them back. A really memorable game. One of the announcers said he wouldn't be surprised if they meet again in the Super Bowl.
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>PS -- gratuitous musical link ;-)

I am in denial about Sunday :) Every time Pats lose I pretend it never happened and it was just a bad dream <g>. I do not turn the sports radio on in the car; turn the tv channel to PBS as soon as they start talking sports. Makes me feel much better :) But since you reminded me, I predict that Pats will meet 49s in Super Bowl. The outcome is, of course, will be obvious :)