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I just found my half-sister Susanna Carlotta Barbieri on Facebook. I hadn't met her in maybe ten, fifteen years, and I really don't know her at all, so it's not exactly like when I found old friends I had thought lost (let alone Dumezil's article in my name). But I am happy about it nevertheless. It turns out she also lives in England and she is

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From what I see, she is remarkably pretty, very sociable, and a real eager beaver on the learning front. She claimed to have started Bokmal Norwegian, Icelandic AND Arabic on the same day, which, speaking as the world's worst linguist, scared me a bit. Well, good luck to her if she can do it!

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Haha, it runs in the family! Are you all intellectual polyglots?

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Mh, let's see... my father has a degree in Mathematics and Statistics (taken when degree in Italy were tough stuff) but is also an amateur photographer and has a keen and well-informed interest in current affairs. My brother, who never graduated (because of the accident that disabled him) is nevertheless an authority on modern Italian society. My sister teaches stage design at a London university college. Yes, I think I might say that we are a bit of an intellectual family. (My mother, who has nothing to do with Susanna, has a fine arts diploma and is well read and a lover of classical music, just to round off the picture.)