What starts with an $8 thrift shop dress can lead you into the (blissful) unknown.
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The fix
Italy and the U.S. differ fundamentally when it comes to making change come true.
Dirty-for-dirty
Twenty-first century America puts a premium on the vital rawness of self.
Sentimental values
What you've collected is part of character, making it all the harder to let go.
Ex-
Listening to break-up stories can help their tellers. But the listener isn't unscathed.
Putin
No longer a superpower, Russia is still very much a player — and the fiefdom of a man.
Alcove
For perspective, talk to the Little Match Girl about the holidays.
Rome, California?
If the Getty gets its way, a Turner painting of Rome may be headed to Malibu.
Sweet victory
Taking on a Piazza Navona vendor over the promise of a donut is a handful.
Bambola
Fantasy worlds can help articulate the transition to sexual adulthood.
Big lug
Give Italy a snow-snap and it zealously hurls itself into the abyss.
Emotional iconography
Remembrance of things past can get jumbled, but not the truth of hard times.