Happy December to everybody!!! Christmas is approaching, together with its warm bonding moments (with God and with our family, a lovely Mass and some nice Tombola and card games. Ihihih!! I’m eager for Christmas day to come. 
My niece and I are getting in touch on Sunday to get my ChickenSoup.com breast cancer personal essay written — she’s going to help me with my English, correcting and fixing errors and ortography. I hope my small work will be helping people, giving them hope and strenght to look forward to happiness in life.
I loved phoning my niece today. It was so nice to talk after so many days (beside online talks).
My sister (Luana‘s mom) bought her an anticipated Christmas present, a nice big tablet to replace the faulty one. I hope she’ll let me take a look into it, when we see each other next time! But I will not touch it too much, because I don’t want to break it of course. I still remember when I broke the key-board of the typewriter my sisters had several decades ago. I felt so ashamed!! I never want to do it again, and infact I’m still afraid to break the PC key-board. 
Thanks to my new affiliates Moni, Ashley and Maggie for thinking of me as their friends!!
I am going to pray the Holy Rosary now. Bye!
Gina Annita B. ♥
You should click on the photo below to see it bigger. Unfortunately it’s a bit blurred, but it’s fine. I still love it.
This is an entry about my niece. The wonderful niece who is helping me write a breast cancer experience testimonial to publish on ChickenSoup.com. I can’t be grateful enough.
The picture portrays us on the day of her 26th birthday. She’s a big girl, 26 years already… it looks like yesterday that I held her in my arms for the first time. She was so small, and I was a bit envious of my younger sister for the luck she had, a little daughter and later, two beautiful twins (boy and girl).
But back to my eldest niece.
She and I are not mere relatives… we are friends.
Luana is – for the most – the only friend I have. I know some people, but nobody understands me better than Luana. She always thought of me as a peer, not an old moody auntie, and that’s very special… very rare too. Not all nieces and nephews are that kind to an aunt that’s thirty years older.
We share a very special coincidence too: I was born on 1955, Luana on 1985 …. and our younger siblings (my sisters and her brother & sister) were born respectively on 1961 and 1991. EXACTLY 6 YEARS APART! AND BOTH OF US HAVE TWO SIBLINGS THAT ARE TWINS!
That’s a big generational case – a special gift by God. It’s like Luana and I were destined to be that close. We share the same role as the big daughters in our families, we have similar interests, and although I’m always a bit lazy with things, she did great things to me: she helped me master my English (not so perfect but I try!), learn how to blog and enjoy some email chat. My little world feels a lot bigger now, I feel less lonely. I need to thank her for this.
I also love all she does with her fictional characters on blogs. She’s a talent! My favorite character of all times is Ambrosia (ambry.phinkable.org) because when Luana still had no Internet on 2002 (I think) she wrote Ambrosia’s story as a short-story, in Italian, and I found it moving. I also asked her to photocopy it for me, so I could keep it in my drawer and reread it when I wish to. Now, it’s so fun to read Ambrosia’s life online! I still keep the story, but I like following the character growth on the blog too. So nice and smart, I think!
I have to leave the computer now, because there’s a thunderstorm outside of here. The electricity can go soon. Please leave a comment if you want. I love you!!
Gina Annita B. ♥
I'm Gina but you may call me Annita, which is my middle name and online nickname too. I'm 56 and I live in a quiet countryside surrounding the Italian city of Velletri, a province of Rome. Most of my neighborhood is composed of relatives from father's side.