“After spending a lifetime trying to fit in somewhere in life and almost getting there, I’m back at the beginning again. Today it was Mama’s birthday. She turned thirty-five and Nonna and I made a cake and we had a little party.We invited Zia Patrizia and her family, and altogether there were about ten of us at Nonna’s place.“October the first, conceived on New Year’s Day, eh, Zia Katia?” Robert said, kissing her from behind.“That’s what I’ve always thought,” Mama laughed after she blew out the ...candles. “Exactly nine months, isn’t it?”“Since when is a baby born exactly nine months later?” my cousin Louisa scoffed.She’s studying science at university and thinks she knows everything on the subject.“Okay, so she was conceived the week before, which was Christmas Day. Even kinkier. Merry Christmas, Katia, he would have said just before he . . .”“Robert!” we all shouted together.“Robert, I remember my father. I don’t think he was a romantic,” Mama said.“Oh, he was romantic,”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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