The Difficulty of Being Human

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• Milla Ragusa
  Milla Ragusa (1941-2016) was a Brazilian born in Araraquara and raised in Sao Paulo, SP, the only child to a Portuguese immigrant family. The English language and the American culture became an important part of Milla’s education having lived in Chicago in the 1960s and returned in the 1980s and 90s. Her professional life began when she was 18 years old, and she worked until her very last days as an English teacher, translator and interpreter. In the 1970s she studied creative writing at Florida universities and she wrote until her very last days novels, short-stories and essays. Her work, posthumously published by Create Space, the Amazon independent publishing branch, is the novel Never a Second Chance written in 1983, and War Stories & Letters from Italy; two of the short-stories were finished just before grave illness struck her in 2016.