The doctor hadn't listened to her. She'd waited too long, and the baby had died inside her before being born. When they told me about the son my grandmother had given birth to, who was stillborn, I better understood how much suffering and injustice there had been in those years.
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A Family Memoir in Progress — Episode 8: Isabella’s Dad
A shell fragment took away part of his skull and doctors gave him six years to live—he lived eighty-four with a steel plate in his head, carrying inside war stories he told only once, under a pergola in Abruzzo, when he finally found the courage to open doors that had stayed closed for decades.
A Family Memoir in Progress — Episode 7: The First One To Arrive, I’ll Marry
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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