TODAY, I BLED MONEY. DEODERANT: First, I went into a farmacia, not realizing it was a sort of natural herb kind of place, picked out a lovely, light sage-green bottle of deodorant, and didn’t get my brain engaged to say no thanks when the clerk told me it was 7 euro (about $8.50) so I now have very expensive deodorant that no TSA better try to take away from me at the airport. SUITCASE. Next, as my husband predicted, I needed a different suitcase since a wheel broke on my case even before I left the US. It’s tough to say broken wheels in Italian. It is something like “ruote rote.” I gave up on the explaining and just asked for a new one, which didn’t cost much, only 14 Euros ($17), which I got in
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