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In February of 2020, I attended the opening of a new Italian restaurant in Brooklyn. The Italian journalists in attendance spoke of the Coronavirus spreading quickly through ������ý. For me, as for many Italophiles, it was the beginning of a two-year-long separation from ������ý. I dreamed about returning and I penned missives to my love in the form of a novel set in ������ý (the second in my “Italian Adventure” series) and dozens of articles about my passion for all things Italian. Wr