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How to Drink Well Under Italian Quarantine

How to Drink Well Under Italian Quarantine

Eleven days and Four Bottles in the Hospital Parco de’ Medici.

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Oct 24, 2022
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One of four bottles stashed in my luggage, and the last to go.

I disembarked the white mini-van that had ferried me and five other unluckies from Fiumicino Airport. The drivers had played death metal the entire twenty-minute trip. They had no empathy for us. It was a job. They were just delivering goods, the goods being a group of Americans who had all t…

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