Pina Di Ciaccio had survived a minefield, Nazi soldiers, and years of hunger, but at thirty-two she faced a different kind of battle: marriage not for love, but to avoid living "under the sister-in-law."
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A Family Memoir in Progress — Episode 6: Pina, the Land and the War
After Armando's story, it's time for his wife, my grandmother Pina. From a harsh childhood of labor, to a youth that could have ended in illness, or with that Nazi pistol pointed at her heart. Or in the minefield she crossed alone.
A Family Memoir in Progress — Episode 5: Armando’s War
He faced the firing squad three times and never renounced a thing.
La morte mi ha reso più felice
Riflessioni sul ruolo della religione e la possibilità di essere felici, qui
Lettera a Gurdjieff sui suoi uomini straordinari
La mia lettera a Georges Gurdjieff sul suo libro "Incontri con uomini straordinari", che a primo impatto mi ha lasciato indifferente, ma dopo un po' è diventata una droga, conquistando la mia attenzione per notti intere




