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From: Letter from geekbars.store · To: You
Dear reader,
If you only learn one Italian word this year, make it magari. It has no English equivalent. It carries longing, possibility, regret, and hope all at once.
You can use it as an answer — when a friend asks "vieni a Roma con noi?" and you say "magari!" — meaning "I wish I could." You can use it as a hesitation, a softener, a fragile yes. Italians use it the way the English use the weather: constantly, and to mean almost anything.
This week's reading is a six-line poem by Patrizia Cavalli that hinges on this exact word. Read it twice. The second time, read it aloud. Magari something shifts.
— Until Sunday,
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