Book excerpt: How to Get Over Your Ex: A Step by Step Guide to Mend a Broken Heart Italian American Style is a fun and entertaining book that provides you with solid strategies for getting over your ex as efficiently and wholeheartedly as possible. One part self-help and one part celebration of Italian American culture, it encourages you to adopt a winning combination of Italian American characteristics and traditions, while embracing the power of family, faith, food, la dolce vita, and much more. (No Italian American ethnicity required!) Learn how to: Properly mourn your relationship and let it rest in peace; Get yourself out of denial and into a new reality; Realize you have emotions and it's okay to express them; Conclude your ex is a stunad and your relationship is dead (And who needs that shit?); Become stubborn and proud; Improve your health tremendously; Benefit from friends and family; Realize Nutella cures all; Live a sexy lifestyle; Attract amore or something like it. Rise above your circumstances and come back swinging with this ultimate breakup survival guide! Like Badda Bing, Badda Boom.