Yes, I am 45, in the last years I have been absolutely working. Also before, but I was traveling, too. I grew up in the Village in New York, when I was ten my parents moved to Italy, and it was with dread that I told myself that "never ever would I have reached the old age of 30", since women here wore black long dresses and were mean and the town was miserable, and I had to study Italian in the afternoon instead of playing with kids. I graduated at the Translators' and Interpreters' School in Florence, packed up a couple of things and ran as fast and far as I could. To Argentina. Then I got to New Orleans in the States. The deep southern sound psychologically brought me to think I had to get back to Italy and face nightmares, understand-develop-know.

Now I am an English teacher at a Secondary School, a movie critic, a translator, I write, paint, still processing information, puzzling myself in the game of performing on this never-ending living platform. Movement has characterized my life, I am easily moved by e/motions, the complex texture of events ties me to people so that I am still alive in a conscious responsible choice.

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