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"Commiserations to Frank, Louis and Lavinia and bless you for asking, and trusting, me to write her obituary."

"Georgescu's mentality is the same as the mentality of Trump," said Lavinia approvingly, as she steered her three-year-old daughter's pushchair through a sea of Romanian tricolour flags.

Lavinia McFarland, along with her son, Samuel and his grandmother, try to go to the community fridge every week on a Wednesday afternoon.

"For some years now we have witnessed unacceptable and embarrassing decisions by some schools that ban nativity scenes or modify the deep essence of Christmas by transforming it into improbable winter festivities so as not to offend believers of other religions," said Lavinia Mennuni, a senator for the ruling Brothers of Italy party, who introduced the bill.

When I couldn’t fit shows into my schedule, I settled for dress rehearsals, including “No Furniture: Suite for a Loft Apartment,” by Lavinia Eloise Bruce.