It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline. . Gabrielle Hamilton
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  2. How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

  3. My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.

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