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	<title>dove mi porta il cuore</title>
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		<title>the way we learn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend wrote:
You know, pop music played a HUGE role in enriching my English so I&#8217;ve got a sort of Pavlovian reaction: a lot of what&#8217;s said in English prompts memories of some song.
I did exactly the same. My cassette tapes were worn out by all the times I pressed play-rewind-play-rewind while trying to catch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>reflections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been working from home for two days now.
I love it. Love it love it love it.
Five years ago I cried &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to work in sales anymore!&#8221; but let me tell you that it is a whole different story when you&#8217;re working for something you believe in, something you are passionate about. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>anywhere is paradise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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mind wanders, exploring possibilites
evaluating dreams and passions
gathering signs, like pieces of a puzzle
curious to find out what the Universe has planned.
Open wide.
Surrendered.
Listening.

Stefan Andersson &#8211; Anywhere Is Paradise
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		<title>destination anywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For five years I have had such a clear vision of my future. Now, not so much.
I have created a business that generates a little extra income but it is also a lot of work. What I also have begun to realize is that this business in its current form is keeping me tied to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>in five-year cycles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of a readiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we are forced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>five years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been five years since I found Expats in Italy.
Five years since &#8216;that day&#8216;.
Five years since my life started to change, really change.
Wow.
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		<title>come fly with me</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[let&#8217;s fly, let&#8217;s fly away&#8230;  

Alexander and I are now booked on a Norwegian flight from Arlanda to Fiumicino. We have flown to and from Rome a couple of times now but this will be our first time at Fiumicino, or the Leonardo da Vinci Airport of Rome. The price is about the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>decisions, decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[18 weeks to go, and I have not yet made any reservations or even decided on where to stay. This is so unlike me.
Option 1) Fly into Pisa on the 13th, take the train to Florence, stay in Florence. Go to Siena on the 15th and probably go back to Florence right after the GTG. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the last night of the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the last day of the last year. It was December 31st, 1999.
She was 20, he was 27. They didn&#8217;t have a penny to their name but they were young and in love. One year earlier they had not yet met, but they were about to celebrate the end of a millennium together. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>smile!</title>
		<link>http://expatsinitaly.com/annika/?p=934</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in the almost four years of this blog&#8217;s life I have not only deleted a couple of comments but even a whole post. I don&#8217;t like to do that, I am quite attached to my scribblings, but I guess some time has to be the first.
There is no need to hang [...]]]></description>
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		<title>138 days</title>
		<link>http://expatsinitaly.com/annika/?p=926</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annika</dc:creator>
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- This was the best Christmas EVER, Alexander declared before going to bed last night.
He was barely awake when we opened our Christmas presents yesterday morning. Bakugans, a Michael Jackson CD and poster&#8230; every gift brought immediate pleasure and he could barely contain himself.
One gift did not bring immediate satisfaction, and I think it took a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>come what may</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annika</dc:creator>
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I was in my first rock band in North Carolina in the 1970s. We did a mix of cover tunes by David Bowie, Lou Reed, and Patti Smith, plus original hippie-punk songs and my poetry rants. Controversy arose virtually every time we performed, especially in places like the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh (where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the greatest gift of all</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ This photo will be printed, put in a box, carefully wrapped and put under the Christmas tree.
Along with it will be a long list of names; the names of all of you who were so extraordinarily kind and generous to make a donation.
Words can never express my awe and gratitude. Some day, somehow, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>winter wonderland</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annika</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winter came suddenly this year. From one day to the next we went from bare ground to a foot-deep layer of snow. Christmas really is around the corner, and the snow suddenly  made it believable.
Laura at Ciao Amalfi wrote today about the Christmas decorations in Amalfi, and posted a picture of a presepe I remember from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>din don dan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annika</dc:creator>
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This is the third year in a row that I make panettone for Christmas. This year I used this recipe. It takes a good 24 hours from start to end, but in my experience it is totally worth it.
I know the Italians think I&#8217;m kind of crazy for even attempting this, but since you can&#8217;t buy [...]]]></description>
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