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Dove non suoanano più i fucili - Europuglia

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like to have a coffee with her on the hotel terrace (at the bottom of the A3 page she<br />

had used to write her letter, this time Eugene had added a redundant PhD). The following<br />

day after a chat with a Genevan astronomer on holiday, I saw Eugene again<br />

and we talked for a hour surrounded by the enchanted atmosphere you can breathe<br />

in this city, by the Greek origins of the professor, by that time when at the age of<br />

twenty she met her husband Christian, who was on holiday in Greece and she told<br />

him, “Take me with you and marry me or go away forever.” So they left for the United<br />

States. Since then her trips to Europe have gotten rarer, until ten years ago when<br />

she fell in love with this part of the Balkans. I confessed to her my old passion for<br />

Greece and the fact that my analyst, Sotirios, comes from Thessaly.<br />

When the hour came, as well-organized Americans do, she stood up and said goodbye<br />

as she ran to her morning appointments.<br />

Five minutes later, Lanzo appeared on the terrace with a pleated face of someone<br />

who got acquainted with a foreign country even in the biblical sense. After he had<br />

recovered, we left with our big suitcases to go back to the Moon.<br />

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