My Improbable Journey - coincidences that dictated my path!

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Reflections on my Improbable Journey from California to Italy, reflecting on the challenges, rewards, gains and losses of raising children in two distinct cultures and in two languages while forever juggling the two parts of who I was and who I am today.

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About Mary Thomas Tacconi

I came to Italy 50 years ago to experience the art I had studied. Wife of an Italian, mother of two adult children, owner of Genius Loci Country Inn in Umbria, and aspiring writer on American/Italian perspectives.

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