LA VITA E' TRISTE, MA PURE BELLA (LIFE IS DIFFICULT, BUT ALSO BEAUTIFUL ) This story depicts the life and times of an amazing woman of Italian descent, Maria Elena Francesca Calabria, who faced many difficult situations in her eighty-seven-years of living in Italy and America. Throughout those years, Maria experiences much sadness and many very humorous situations. The reader recognizes that the common pattern of life is that the same things that bring us joy will also at some point in life bring us sorrow. My story will take the reader on Maria's journey from rags to riches and then from...