We have birthday: me and A., the eldest son of the exotic.
We were invited to a dinner - me and Tino - exotic in style, at home. It 'was very nice because for the first time I could understand the deep bond that unites people who emigrate from one country to another.
We were the only Italians. They had prepared a dinner rich and diverse, made up of tartar sauces, meat, vegetables and rolls of high-calorie sweets. A kind of buffet.
As home of many exotic places to live in, we had dinner in the nursery. In the midst of exotic and half Italian half books, games and beds stacked one on top, to take place at the table. They were all happy
the exotic, both those native of the building that their guests.
They told their story to us any Italian town of each province.
Vlad immigrated six years ago, leaving at home his wife and small daughter, to make his fortune so they can then bring them here.
Upon entering Italy - was planning a major city in the north - was taken by anxiety. Construction engineer, did not know a word of Italian, was a stranger and irregular and did not understand how to let the conductor of the railways, where he wanted to go.
So he took the first train leaving for a destination at random. It 'happened in the city without a name. He stopped the first compatriot
that is able to recognize on the street, this showed him how to get to where he runs every day, at 3, there are the newcomers. There, he met Mom exotic, that she had come recently.
you, Dad exotic and Vlad went to live together. In a very small house, spending much money.
Vlad, known civil engineer of his country, he found work as a bricklayer. Now he is happy because her work situation is much improved, an electrician.
recent months have reached his wife and daughter - who had not seen for three years - because he got permission to stay.
live 40 km from the city on a hill, because so spend less.
The daughter began to feel very ill last year.
In his country could not cure it, in any city they discovered, recently, that has a brain tumor.
They say it is because of Chernobyl. Because they lived close by and this girl's mother knew - as his fellow citizens - long after what had happened.
He ate vegetables, drank contaminated water, and remained in the rain for a long time.
She was pregnant then. She had a miscarriage. The doctors have denied that things were involved, but they are sensitive and intelligent people think differently.
Now they have a daughter aged 14. Who a brain tumor, a dancer's physical and sad eyes.
But they are happy. because here, they say, will be treated better. Vlad
now knows 5 languages, ancient greek law, is an excellent engineer and love the Divine Comedy.
Now an electrician and knows he is very lucky, because at home it would have been unemployed, with a very sick daughter.
Irina is a carer. He knew MammaEsotica to the supermarket and they have never let go. They washed stairs together, for two cents. Cried the distance from their children, who were here early. Looking at photos and telling each other of the Year in the snow, watching the TV shows "special" and dancing at home together. They thought
together several times not to do it. In those days, if they could, they took a train and went to Venice. To see the magical and mythical Venice.
They sent their children gondolas of cardboard and pictures taken with the Polaroid, canals, palaces, and the pigeons that you eat on top of San Marco.
Irina knew a man in Italy. Now I'm married. Her first child has reached. Struggles to fit in school, he says. His companions take him around like a garment. Why is it lonely without her garden and her home in an exotic country.
But Irina is happy. Why have just given a council house and sees a future for this child and what he brings to belly, half and half Italian exotic.
Paul is a colleague of Dad Exotic. They work in the same yard. Even now he is happy. because he works 10 hours a day, but at least have the money to go to school at night.
has a degree in chemistry.
is taking a technical diploma in the evening. Gets home at 11, but he was happy, because he hopes for a future purchase, thanks to his Italian diploma.
E 'was a nice evening.
I wish there were also exotic tedescona that hates them, because - he says - make too much fuss. Maybe he
recontextualized its certainties and its unhappiness that oozes from every pore. Maybe he saw something more concrete a course for managers rampant and some cigarette butts on the stairs.
for me - at least - it was so.
We returned home, Tino and I, and we looked out the window ... trees, hills and the courtyard of apartment block. Things we love, landscapes that we know from a life and make us feel good.
We thought about Vlad and his family, to his sick child and his smile full of life.
We thought the baby she was carrying and its future.
We hugged hard.
We thank you for being eligible for an evening so beautiful.
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