Self: "Wow, why?
Italian Person: "It's not just the cooking and the laundry and all that, because if you really need to you can hire someone to do that. It's that she likes me to do her flashcards with her."
The other day I was at the park and became engaged in a conversation with an Italian Person. She told me she had been widowed at a young age, and struggled to make ends meet for herself and her daughter as a science tutor for high school kids. They were from another city, but her daughter wanted to go to a university here, so what did she do? Naturally, she dropped everything, sold their house, and bought an apartment for the two of them near the university.
Self: "Wow, why? Italian Person: "It's not just the cooking and the laundry and all that, because if you really need to you can hire someone to do that. It's that she likes me to do her flashcards with her."
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