Sandra Marchegiano | Someone stole her image, but she wants profits to go to hospitals

She became very popular in Italy for her "So condenda pe fa sta sfilata" that means a funny way to say "I'm glad to do this beauty pageant". But she became popular something like 25 years later, in fact today she's a very famous meme. She's Sandra Marchegiano and participated to "Miss Italia in the World" in 1992. Who is Sandra Marchegiano? In web 2.0 and web 3.0 times, people can unawares get popular. One day your face with the "impact" font goes to a meme site and the day after people come to find you because you're a myth. This is what happened to Sandra Marchegiano, daughter of Italian immigrants. One day her beautiful face framed by ringlets and star-shaped earrings became the symbol of Italian- American people, blending in a funny way Italian dialect and her American language. Today everyone wants to hear it. Moreover, this caught the attention of famous Italian people too, like Frank Matano. Something that surprised many people was: after 28 years…

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Coronavirus and pregnancy | Being pregnant in the middle of the epidemic 🦠

Living during coronavorus time sounds like a big rip off which drags you between hope and distress. It is proven: an expectant mom doesn’t transmit the virus to the fetus because it does not pass through the placenta. One positive news into a sea of uncertainties and fears, suspicions and searches backwards into the mind to understand who did you meet, what place you visited or touched. Before covid-19 in our area meningitis had spread, just next to the town that we left two months before moving to Bergamo. I wondered «Should I take the appropriate preventive measures, as buying a surgical mask, to attend the airport?». Coronavirus during the pregnancy: the first cases in Lombardy After meningitis alarm retracted, news from China spread like wildfire, and like wildfire, the virus infection spread too. Korea, Russia, Europe, the first cases in Italy. In meanwhile Francesco and I had two flights that we had booked for a long time to go to Calabria and stay a few days at the beginning…

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