Ciao! Ciao bella! Welcome to my beautiful country! Yes, you will love it here— you, on your study abroad with your charming Ugg boots and your little fleece jacket and your confusion over local customs and your little muffin top fat over too-tight jeans! Ha ha! So charming, my little American dumpling! You will be needing some Local Man to help you with the buying of the food and the finding of the Bancomat, yes? You will be needing some Local Man to bring you up onto the Vespa and zip you around the city, pointing out the buildings of importance, making love to you in the little apartment with the roommate from Korea, so disapproving, yes? Ha ha! Bella, so beautiful! So innocent! I will show you my beautiful city, yes, and I will be making the love to you all night. And I will be putting the small package into your luggage for you to take through the Customs at the airport, yes — don’t ask what is inside, my perfect dumpling Americana! Don’t say a word! Just call my brother when you arrive back home, give the package to him, no problem! And if the TSA pulls you into the little room and asks to search your anus, just smile, bella! And plead the fifth.


