I hammered home the point of how big the US was to an Italian exchange student my freshman year at college.

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"I drove from Chicago to Santa Barbara. That's like driving from Rome, Italy, to Brittany, France.

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She nods in amazement.

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"...and back.

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She gapes.

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Yeah, it's big. Hell, I travelled for two months and all I got to use was a very small smattering of French in Montreal. That and realizing where the name "Vermont" comes from.