From Italy to America with Love

A young girl survived a 1940 bombing and torpedo attack that changed the history of naval warfare. Involved in a fascist youth group, she outlived World War II and viewed the antics of a US military occupation in her city of Taranto, Italy. After the war she loved and was deceived; had an artistic career in Italy; found herself happily in America; faced the repentant deceiver here in the US; married an American; and continued her art in the New World where she found that dates are not always to be eaten, pot doesn't always mean a kettle, and monkey business might involve sticky fingers.