Allora, time for a different spritz

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Every now and then an idea comes along that you really want to write, but for one reason or another doesn't get to the finish line. Sometimes you just get unlucky: editors don't want it, or they would but they just published something similar, or the timing just doesn't work.

I've got one such on my desk that first came to me in May. I thought it would m…