A parallel story, a brother and sister take two completely different paths to pursue their dreams. The sister travels halfway around the world to teach English as a foreign language. The brother takes a job as a computer sales representative, but falls into despair and disillusionment when he does not know much about the product, and fails to even attempt promoting sales. One sibling’s life ends in tragedy, the other’s continues with apprehension and ambiguity, but both have a powerful message to deliver along the way.

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Elizabeth R. Barbiere was born and raised in Timonium, Maryland, which is in the outskirts of the city of Baltimore. An undergraduate from the University of Maryland at College Park, she was a foreign language major. She spent her junior year abroad in Avignon, France. After having obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree, she secured her first teaching job in Tunis, Tunisia where she was an instructor of English as a foreign language. The following year, Barbiere went to Paris, France to study at Sorbonne, where she completed courses in French literature and history. While still in Europe, she also went to the southernmost part of Switzerland to learn Italian, which was her minor in college. Later she went to Rome, Italy to continue her pursuit of the Italian language and culture. In 1983, Barbiere returned to her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland to continue her studies in education at Towson State University. She has since obtained a Master of Education degree. She has formulated her own courses of foreign language for adults and has taught French and Italian in various settings. Her professional background includes instruction in public and private high school, after school programs, tutoring and summer school.

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