How to live a life

Or, when to jump ship

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I am driving myself crazy.

On the one hand, I’m this person: A crazy, crazed, restless, excited romantic hell-bent on renting my house and moving to Italy. Where? Who knows? Rome, or somewhere in Abruzzo. These things are fairly arbitrary. Rome because that’s where Jhumpa Lahiri moved, learned Italian, and wrote her latest novel. Because I read a New Yorker article…