”“Let me have that paper, I’ll give it back to you in the morning.”“Keep it, Son. The man left a dozen for me to pass out. You’ll see his ...ame in the story more than a few times.”Sometimes I think my Ma must be smiling down on me, then at other times, I’m damn glad she’s not.Tonight, was another time I hope Ma wasn’t looking... When the two boys had poured hot water into both bathing tubs until they were nearly full, they left and I locked the door behind them. I turned around, there stood. I don’t even know what to say, it hurts.”I sat there in silence looking at the movie but not really watching it, it had jumped to the part where she was cutting her hair, which was a good thirty minutes later in the movie. Rita was on the other end of the couch doing the same thing I was, avoiding looking at me, but holding back letting out her emotions. Neither of us wanted to talk first, so we just sat there “watching” the movie while upset. It was like that for a while until I heard. Gastone is an impressive looking man. I'm guessing late fifties, tall (for an Italian) and classically handsome. The kind of man you have seen many times on TV, in movies, that maverick cop perhaps, and he wears a moustache that looks like it belongs to him if you know what I mean.I hang back as the family greetings progress. Then Giulia comes to find me and brings me through the crowd to meet her father. Wow! His first look strips me naked. We've all been 'checked out' by men and women a. .. My first class back to school was unfortunately P.E...Whoever said that this class should be viable at 8 o'clock in themorning should be thrust into the sun by a giant slingshot. I'm kidding,but the coldness is one of the things that irks me more than anything,especially since its January. I like breezes and all that, but this isjust insane to me. And now I have to do it with even shorter shorts,which seems totally stupid to me. They say we can't even use sweats, butI said screw it. I got.