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Well, I was thinking that if you have seen my home page and read some pages, you may be thinking who I am, who is this one who lives in Italy and talks in a "strange" english about Italian food. I am Ana Maria da Costa, I was born in Rio de Janeiro and even if I dreamed about living in America, when I was 19 I got married and came to live in Italy. I know, I know that it sounds absurd now to get married at 19. But I did it, and fortunately, I did not regret it anytime. But at the beginning it was not easy at all. My husband comes from a 2000 inhabitants small city in Sardinia and we lived there for 19 years (now we live 50km from there, in a cute small city with about 60.000 inhabitants). Arriving from another continent in such a small place is an experience that seems to come out from a film. I came from a big city to a place where everything you do is followed by each one and you HAVE to follow their culture and uses. But in our life nothing happens just by chance, as my sister uses to say. I learned a lot about life, about family... and about food! We have two wonderful children (it always sonds me strange to call them children, as he is 22 and she is 16!), Stefano and Gabriella. During 2002 and 2003 I lived in Brazil again. I then opened a small spaghetti house where I offered the "real" Italian food. When I decided to come back to Italy I had to close it, but I conquered some customers with my food, and it was a great experience. About my english... I studied english while in my teens in Rio. I always loved this language and used to sing each Beatles' songs, used to have penpals around the world and somewhere inside me I already knew that I was going to live my life abroad. I am sorry for my english mistakes. Having a second language (Italian) between portuguese and english, makes me mix grammar rules, once in a while... :-) But I prefered not to have it corrected or proofwritten. Maybe it's a mistake, I don't know, but I just feel like talking to you directly, as you are right now in the other part of my monitor.
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