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Jul 2019
11m 23s

Bittersweet Moment #18: INDIA

Expat, Repat, Travel, Rome, Seattle, Books, Art, Italy, Wonder
About this episode

On this week's Bittersweet Moment, Tiffany interviews an old friend, someone who has had an influence on her writing in a very concrete way.

The interview takes place in a gorgous house up in the trees on the cliff of Big Sur, but it was in Rome where Tiffany and India first met, and the place India was living ending up being one of the seeds that would lead to the idea for her first book, Midnight in the Piazza.

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