LOVE STORIES by Questa Dolce Vita: Bethany and Manuele
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3y ago
You can hate me and I'll totally understand. I know, it's been too long. Our hearts have been empty and longing for a little romance and I left you out in the cold this whole time. I know one love story can't undo this desperate situation I've created, but let's try anyways. I'm happy to bring back Love Story Lunedì this Monday, one that started very dreary and grey here in Bergamo but miraculously the sun came shining through in the afternoon. Whether you're a believer or not, this particular love story is one that was most certainly orchestrated by God and kept together through faith and ..read more
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If You Would Have Been The 1 – Part One
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3y ago
If you had been the one, we would be living near San Francisco and surrounded by academics. Your colleagues are Stanford professors and when we entertain them at our place, they give me forced smiles and comment incessantly on what a talented artist I am as they scan the walls of our living room with Tom Ford tortoiseshell glasses propped on their noses. You never liked going out to eat, so I’ve never been to Foreign Cinema or to Sotto Mare in North Beach. Instead, we do weekends out immersed in the Redwoods because it’s where you’re happiest, with a backpack and hiking shoes on your feet. Be ..read more
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The Last Time I Saw You, Part 1
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4y ago
It was summertime, isn't it always when you last see someone? The birds singing and the limpid blue skies of my hometown overhead. I was already living abroad at the time and walking back up the oak-lined streets of the university campus, the entire life I'd left behind felt like an entire lifetime ago. We were meeting at our old spot. The place with the cinnamon buns that sits along the river valley where you can never find parking. I don't remember if you were already sitting inside when I walked in, I was probably late- a habit that I had been quick to pick up after just a year in Italy. W ..read more
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Love Story Lunedì: V & P
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4y ago
I have had the opportunity, through this blog, of hearing and sharing your beautiful stories and helping them reach others who might be dreaming of or living a similar one. A few weeks ago, I shared Caroline's story about her Italian love, Lorenzo, a testament that love is always worth sharing and that even when a relationship ends, the love always lives on in our memories. I received an e-mail a few days ago from someone that I would like to post here. It's not an easy read but when I read it, I knew I had to share it because this is a place where we celebrate love and life. May this resonat ..read more
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LOVE STORIES by Questa Dolce Vita: Gina and Marco
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4y ago
Well hello hello STRANGERS. Yes, it's been a long time since we've seen each other and the world has basically imploded since then but I'm here on this dreary Monday to bring some love back into our lives. Gina provided a backstory and was so precise in her details that I won't spoil anything with an intro, let's just get right into her words!  Backstory: I had dreamt of coming to Italy since I was thirteen. My middle-school journal has a list of dreams that include traveling the world, living in Italy and maybe even marrying an Italian guy (along with becoming a marine biologist, writ ..read more
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This Sweet Life: Chapter Five
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4y ago
Present Day (*again, please be aware this was written more than three years ago) I’m writing this sdraiata sul divano, laying down on the sofa, in the house that my wonderfully schizzinoso Massi decorated (and that my legendary mother-in-law gave her okay on of course). It’s a grey evening in Bergamo, Italy, my adopted home and I’ve just downed a family-size portion of my favourite pasta: linguine allo scoglio. Sometimes, I can’t decide whether I love the taste or just the way that the word “allo scoglio” rolls off the tongue. It’s delicious to say. In the background, the news reporter of TG ..read more
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This Sweet Life: Chapter Four
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4y ago
*this is a really mini- chapter, the idea was to write from where the story left off (so from graduation from university until my first move to Italy but, as you can see, I skipped over that part). I hope to complete it at some point but for now: ​ Day 365 in Italy – BACK TO CANADA FOR CHRISTMAS   I had been “living” in Italy for 365 days on a working-holiday visa when the time came for me to go back to Canada. I never thought I would long for a Double-Double from Tim Hortons, Canadians the world over call that stuff liquid cocaine but I think it’s something stronger than that- patrioti ..read more
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This Sweet Life: Chapter Three
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4y ago
​*note: the timeline is not accurate as I started writing this years ago so this chapter, for example, actually took place more like 8 years ago.  5 years ago – ISCHIA   There is a saying, “see Naples and die”. One night, many years ago, I thought this saying would become a reality. I was wearing cowboy boots like only an Albertan would and I was literally shaking in them. My friend Sunmi and I had just landed in Naples. It was midnight and we arrived late because we had missed a connecting flight somewhere along the way from Edmonton to Italy. I never had the intention to land in ..read more
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This Sweet Life: Chapter Two
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4y ago
8 years ago   The letter arrived exactly like is does in the movies, in a big, off-beige, rectangular envelope. As soon as I fished it out of the mailbox, I could feel its weight and I knew it was full of my future. I had been accepted to pharmacy school and what’s more, the acceptance meant the next four years of my life were occupied. I know what you’re thinking here. Why on earth would I want to go into pharmacy school when I could have just finished my degree and then hop on the next plane to il bel paese?  I also know it seems like a fall-back, a Plan B to medical school, secon ..read more
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This Sweet Life: Chapter One
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4y ago
Chapter One: The Meet Cute   Nine Years Ago   A meet cute, in case you haven’t seen The Holiday (which means you should probably stop reading my book), is the moment when two fictional characters in a film meet for the first time in an adorable and serendipitous way leading to an inevitable romance and happily ever after. I met my fate one hot summer night almost nine years ago in Edmonton. I was nineteen, about to turn twenty, and obsessed with Europe. By obsessed with Europe, I mean that I had already done a couple summers of backpacking with a Eurail pass in one hand and either a ..read more
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