Sublime

I also liked it because it allowed me to justify the impulse of tenderness roused in me by Michele’s manner, which has remained candid and ingenuous, even now that he’s almost fifty. When he calls me “mamma” I respond in a tone that’s severe yet loving, the same I used with Riccardo when he was a child. But now I see that it was a mistake; he was t

Luckily, Mirella had gone out with her friend Giovanna, or she wouldn’t have hidden her irritation, since she gets bored staying home with us. She always says it harshly, without thinking that maybe I, too, am bored staying home with them on holidays or at night, but unlike her, I don’t have the right to say it.

On Christmas Eve, I understood for the first time that his bad mood is an accusation against his father and me. The truth is, he sometimes claims that although Michele has worked for so many years in a bank, he isn’t a businessman, meaning that he wasn’t able to get rich.