Hi, Evon! Lovely to meet you (so to speak)! Thank you for sharing so much of your story here. I share your love of Italy and hoped to move there, too, one day, as you did, for an undetermined length of time. But I live in the UK and my British passport no longer allows me to do that because of Brexit. Have to settle for long holidays someday!

I love your spirit...thank you for a beautiful read.