Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.
Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

