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<DIV><TT><SPAN class=515593318-02062005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Dear
Marco,</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT><SPAN class=515593318-02062005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Guess
what? If I chose Bolzano/Bozen (which you call "la mia citta") - which I
consider</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=515593318-02062005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>a
beautiful place - as the </FONT></SPAN></TT><TT><SPAN
class=515593318-02062005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>place to settle down in
my retirement, it would become my "Wahlheimat"</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=515593318-02062005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>(my
Heimat of choice). But I'll probably settle down in Munich which is my
Wahlheimat and</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=515593318-02062005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>where my
Heimatgemeinde (home church) is.</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
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class=515593318-02062005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=515593318-02062005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Ciao,</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=515593318-02062005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Fritz</FONT> </SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=515593318-02062005></SPAN><SPAN
class=515593318-02062005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=515593318-02062005> </SPAN>> By the way, where are
you from in Italy (if you are Italian)?<BR>> Would you call the place where
you were born and maybe grew up<BR>> "terra natia"?<BR><BR>I am from
Bolzano/Bozen, at the boundary with Austria (so, a Heimat<BR>besides a patria
;-) ), and no, I would never call it a terra natia,<BR>because that term is
archaic ("lougo di nascita" sounds too bureaucratic,<BR>"terra natale" too
solemn -- I guess I would simply say "la mia citta'" <BR>(my city/town),
which is a term I would never use for the place where
I<BR>live.)<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Marco<BR></TT>
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