"She was always there, sitting on the wooden floor surrounded by white paper patterns fluttering around like confetti - working of course - because she loved it so much".

Sawa and I have been flatmates for a while in Brooklyn. We first met in Milan when she came for an exchange program at my same university.

She was staying at my friend Mattia's and she used to stick yellow post-it on EVERYTHING : the fridge, the pan, the lamp, spoons, drawers, books, flowers - everything. That was her clever way to learn Italian - in less than a semester she became more fluent than all of us - dialect included.

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