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\"\"<\/a>I cannot remember how I got to know this lovely Finnish lady. We were both learning Italian, and we visited on the internet. Then when Facebook became popular, I found her there too and we played scrabble in Italian together, she was one of the few patient enough to do so with me because neither of us were very good. I recently saw a photograph of her sitting with her charming little girl and I just loved the expression on her face. Here is the portrait, just for fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I cannot remember how I got to know this lovely Finnish lady. We were both learning Italian, and we visited on the internet. 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