“Hi dad, we don’t know each other but we love each other so much because I am the fruit ofLove yours and mom’s. I know you spent the time to have me: youth, the desire to live life carefree, the frantic search for a stable job, having a home and the serenity that all children in the world should have. You thought everything through carefully together with your Marianna because despite your young age, you were thoughtful and worried about everything. But someone up there wanted you more than us, they wanted a Angel with eyes as blue as the sky to be irradiated by your beauty and sensitivity. And she took you away from this earth, from us, she deprived us of the possibility of loving you and living in you.
You know dad, it’s so difficult here without you: mom cries day and night, looks at your photos and imagines that dreamed life, she misses you and even the grandparents Nino, Maria Luisa, Domenico, Giovanna are sad. You wanted to call me Antonino, like your father, a strong, loyal, good man who often hides his true feelings so as not to damage his “hardness” that he wants to demonstrate to others, but instead he is fragile, so fragile. You know dad, you’re no longer with us, but grandpa does everything for me and mum, like you would have done. The other grandparents also pamper me and wait for me anxiously, I will certainly be loved very much. My dad, I don’t know yet if I will be a boy or a girl, but one thing is certain: I am a creature loved to death by your family, by your mother’s family and by you because even if an immense space divides us, your love will be even more infinite and will soothe the suffering we are experiencing. Stay close to me dad, help mom so that everything goes well and she prays for my grandparents and uncles who will be my roots, my physical contacts with you, the living expression of your great love for me. Thank you dad because he wanted me, desired me with all of yourself, because you will make me live in this world. Oh dad, I forgot, don’t worry, I’ll take care of mum!”.
On the occasion of trigesimo will be celebrated tomorrow 5 Mayat 6.30 pm at the parish church of Santa Caterina d’Alessandria, in Reggio Calabriaa holy mass for the young man Carmel and all relatives and friends will remember the late man who left an indelible mark on the lives of those who loved him and will love him forever.
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