music, bullheadedness, writing, Russias, United states, strategy, recoveries

Listening to an orchestra on television, Fio realized that a guitar is like a piano, but sexier.
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Fio has always had to discover truths for herself, sometimes to her sorrow.
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Throughout her life, Fiorella has done and said things for which, if life were fair, she should have been acknowledged, even feted. But, truth to tell, a spotlight would have made her so self-conscious that she couldn't have operated normally, so she much prefers invisibility.  Except, of course, that she wants her romances to sell BIG.
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Fio has just realized that the United States is the target of the same destruction-from-within strategy that Russia has employed so successfully in Syria, but she has no idea how to combat it except to hold her course.
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Fio has discovered a lot of stuff she had forgotten about while purging her office of years of accumulations, like the Christmas carols she composed, lo, these many years ago, under the mistaken impression that if she produced good work, it would be valued. Still nothing from junior high yet, but she's still looking.