So a close friend, in Italian, is one you that can wear tightly, snug against your skin
Every day after class, Sofie and I go sit by the Tiber, eating our gelato and studying with each other. You can t even rightly call it studying, the thing that we do. It s more like a shared relishing of the Italian language, an almost worshipful ritual, and we re always offering each other new wonderful idioms. Like, for instance, we just learned the other day that un amica stretta means a close But stretta literally means tight, as in clothing, like a tight skirt.
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