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FRIENDS: Never ask for food.
ITALIAN FRIENDS: Are the reason you have food.



FRIENDS: Will say "hello."
ITALIAN FRIENDS: Will give you a big hug and a kiss.



FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr. and Mrs.
ITALIAN FRIENDS: Call your parents mom and dad.



FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry.
ITALIAN FRIENDS: Cry with you.



FRIENDS: Will eat at your dinner table and leave.
ITALIAN FRIENDS: Will spend hours there, talking, laughing and just
being together.



FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.
ITALIAN FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it's yours.



FRIENDS: know a few things about you.
ITALIAN FRIENDS: Could write a book with direct quotes from you.



FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that's what the crowd is doing.
ITALIAN FRIENDS: Will kick the whole crowds' ass that left you.



FRIENDS: Would knock on your door.
ITALIAN FRIENDS: Walk right in and say, "I'm home!"



FRIENDS: Are for awhile.
ITALIAN FRIENDS: Are for life.


FRIENDS: Will ignore this.
ITALIAN FRIENDS: Will forward this.

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"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." - Norman Schwarskopf, Commander of Desert Storm Operations