WOW, congrats, SB!
I sure subscribe to all the beautiful things Plaw said. I'm just adding that I particularly like the way you always sound proud of your Italian origins, the way you love to keep your heritage alive. This is something about Italian Americans that touches me so much!

Un abbraccio e un bacio dall'Italia!

I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth (Blanche/A streetcar named desire)