Keys - Chiavi (1)
Hometown in Italy 1 I didn't have time to get my first key to the house I was born in because we emigrated to England when I was ten. The village where I was born is now a town in the south of Italy near Naples. It was my father's hometown, my mother came from another village nearby. There was a lot of discrimination going on those days. I'm talking about the 50's when life in that village was similar to a small village in Africa nowadays. Well almost! When my father married my mother, everyone in his village was surprised as he had left a local girl to marry a stranger so you can imagine the kind of atmosphere there was around the place. They were all curious to see who this girl was and why she had captured my father's heart. Even his own family put her to the test. It was quite a terrible period for mum, poor thing, there was continuous picking on her and unfortunately she received no support from her own family, living in the other village, you can just imagine ...