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JR · April 25th, 2006, 07:11 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

wrote:

I mean this as a serious question - why didn't you remain in Italy and
become an Italian citizen, or, why don't you return and become one? IOW,
why wouldn't you rather be an Italian citizen as opposed to your current
(US?) citizenship?

Honestly, I'd have thought you both educated *and* smart enough to be
above falling back not just on "love it or leave it," but implying
something like "if there is *even one thing* about the U.S. that you
don't believe is the absolute best in the world, then leave it."

For one thing, I am not--at least for the moment, thank God--poor. For
another, there's more to life (and even to being an American) than
health care. Fly fishing in Italy, for example, though nice enough,
can't hold a candle......