Polls

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I have been clean for 11 years now I smoke weed and occasionally drink. It was a hard rough ugly battle to get sober. The day after tomorrow It will be 12 years I've been clean. My bottom was waking up to my sister in my parents bedroom freaked out because of the way I was acting. That was the day I knew I needed to change or I would eventually drive my family away. I use n\a meetings to help keep me sober but what really helps me is seeing what I looked like when I was fucked up all the time. Not a pretty sight. My question is kind of a 3 part question. What is your experience with addiction? If you decided to get sober, what was it that pushed you to make that decision? What keeps you sober?

I suppose there might be many reasons why someone would stay in a relationship even when they know they should end it.


What are the reasons why you didn’t end the relationship?

I do need to work on my anger some more but other than that it’s pretty good.

I work with him, catch him staring at me and awkwardly making eye contact with me. He’s really friendly and outgoing with everyone apart from me too.
whenever I am talking to other people, he listens intently and stares at me. He also remembers most things I’ve said. but he never talks to me one on one. I catch him checking me out too.

Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are her most widely known works.

Time magazine called Ferrante one of the 100 most influential people in 2016.

In October 2016, investigative reporter Claudio Gatti published an article jointly in Il Sole 24 Ore and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, that relied on financial records related to real estate transactions and royalties payments to draw the conclusion that Anita Raja, a Rome-based translator, is the real author behind the Ferrante pseudonym.

In December 2016, the controversial Italian prankster Tommaso Debenedetti published on the website of the Spanish daily El Mundo a purported interview with Raja confirming she was Elena Ferrante; this was quickly denied by Ferrante's publisher, who called the interview a fake.

In September 2017, a team of scholars, computer scientists, philologists and linguists at the University of Padua analyzed 150 novels written in Italian by 40 different authors, including seven books by Elena Ferrante, but none by Raja. Based on analysis using several authorship attribution models, they concluded that Anita Raja's husband, author and journalist Domenico Starnone, is the probable author of the Ferrante novels. Raja has worked for E/O Publishing as copy editor and has been editing Starnone's books for years.

Ferrante has repeatedly dismissed suggestions that she is actually a man, telling Vanity Fair in 2015 that questions about her gender are rooted in a presumed "weakness" of female writers.

ARTICLE: Have Italian Scholars Figured Out the Identity of Elena Ferrante?