Alto Adige – The Happy Quitter!

Published February 16, 2026 by TheHappyQuitter

Twice The Patriot?

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I was born into an annexed region. I could have been Italian, but because of my Grandfather’s stubbornness, and because part of our farm was on the right side of the mountains/border, I came into this world as an Austrian girl. I am also American, by choice and love. The love for the man I met so many decades ago, who I followed to his country, who became my husband. Whose language I learned, whose passion I share. I am an American-Austrian, an Austria-American, a female version of Schwarzenegger. I am an Austrian in America.

Writing and Prompts

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Published May 26, 2017 by TheHappyQuitter

Italy – Austria – Germany – USA and then some

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I was raised right between Italy and Austria. “So, where did you go to school,” people often asked me and my answer confused them even more. I went to school in the South of Germany, three hours away from the small village that I called home. Like life wasn’t complicated enough the way it was.

Writing and Prompts

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Published March 26, 2017 by TheHappyQuitter

I loved my Grandmother. But she was a Nazi – Article in the New York Times

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“We didn’t know.” That’s the statement I often got when I asked about Hitler. Just the ones who had helped or resisted, those were the ones who apparently had known. People like my Grandfather, who was held as a political prisoner in a concentration camp, he knew, he had seen it.

Writing and Prompts

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