The best-laid plans: a look back to our summer trip to Italy.(power of the pen)(Short story) From: Writing! | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: Frank, Steven | COPYRIGHT 2008 Weekly Reader Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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My brother had arranged everything. In Milan we would pick up the rental car and follow his explicit, e-mailed directions to a gas station in central Recco, a coastal town on Italy's Ligurian coast. At precisely 10 p.m. Italian time, we were to turn on the cell phone that he had FedExed to me in Los Angeles. The phone would ring at 10:02, and my brother would "talk us up the hill" to the villa that was to be our base for the next eight days.

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