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Elle Saverini

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in Fairfield, CT, The United States
August 13, 1961

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Cover me with a map of the Mediterranean and set me free in a little burning boat when it's my time to go ~ like the Vikings of olde! Just make sure to cast me off the coast of a remote Greek island..."a new island every year" has been my mantra, from Sardegna/Sicily to the Ionian Corfu, and that alternately green and rugged rock called Kriti ~ Crete. You're welcome to find my travel articles at:

http://www.examiner.com/mediterranean...

Fueled by a gypsy lust for travel and an adventurous soul, I seek the ultimate off-beaten-track art, meal, dance, romance and story, increasingly harder to find as the world has grown cramped in places which not-many-years-ago, used to be nearly deserted.

A significant number of my archived fotos are of memora
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Average rating: 5.0 · 1 rating · 1 review · 1 distinct work
Crazy, that... Crime. Faith...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 3 editions
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Happy Spring, all!
Here's yet another link to book reviews:
I highly suggest you take a look at "Dreaming in French" by Kaplan.

Here's the shortcut:

http://www.examiner.com/review/dreami...

and here's the direct link to all my reviews, many of which are already on Goodreads;-D

http://www.examiner.com/literary-in-w... Read more of this blog post »
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“I don't have a command for 'stop wagging your tail'.”
Elle Saverini

“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
Dorothy Parker

“I don't have a command for 'stop wagging your tail'.”
Elle Saverini

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
Albert Schweitzer

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