"When CNN does not reciprocate with simple engagement with our hills and valleys, our romantic ideals, often only with our traumas. And everyone in the world has trauma. If you know where Naples is or Mount Vesuvius, then you are clever."
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Talking about a time when her father and her were watching CNN, when a quiz like “Where is Mount Vesuvius came up on the screen
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