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| Moira Bainchi |
Hello there!
Thanks for having me here, Maria Grazia! I love Italy and everything Italian,
including my hubs who has half-Portuguese-half-Italian heritage. I’m Brazilian,
love and live in Rio de Janeiro, have a healthy fixation with Darcy and Lizzy
since I first read Pride and Prejudice.
It was love at first line. When Austen told me exactly what was going on in Darcy's
head I fell for him. What I like most in P&P is their imperfection, how
real they seem. She is stubborn, strong-willed; he is haughty and conceited. Well,
he is also stubborn, she is also conceited… I can never tell who is more
prejudiced and who is more proud.
I spent years reading fanfic, silently at first and then commenting and
making friends until I gave in to a particular scene that looped in my head
constantly. From the barbecue sequence from
‘Friendship of a special kind’ to today, it’s been four years, countless short
stories and drabbles and six books; I can’t seem to leave Ms. Austen’s
characters alone. Neither they leave me… They talk to me in the wee hours of
the night, right before falling asleep and sometimes I dream a whole scene, a
whole plot even! A friend teases me saying I’m slightly crazy, I call it
inspiration.
