European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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At that point we started walking with two others from Correggio.
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We knew nothing at all, I had no news of my family, so we inquired with the director of SARSA.
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We walked home, something that was still quite common back then.
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When I reached the point where today you find the ACM, I was tired and stopped to rest for a while.
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A woman came by on her bicycle, and asked me if I was the son of Mr. Porta.
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I told her I was, and she said: “You’re late!”.
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“Well, I have just got here”.
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She offered to go tell my parents to come greet me, but before she left I asked her what the situation was, since she knew my family.
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“Everyone is alive”, she said,
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“and your brother has just come back from Switzerland”.
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Then she ran to my parents’ home to give them the good news.
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I will never forget my mother running towards me in tears.
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She could not take it anymore, just like me, and that’s the first time I cried.
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I usually shed tears every time I tell this story, so today I’m lucky: this morning I managed not to cry.
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And that’s the end of the story.
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I got back in touch with my old contacts and began looking for a job.
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I received many offers that I didn’t accept,
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then I just went on with my new job, at Giglio,
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Latterie Cooperative Riunite (the United Dairy Cooperative). I’ve worked there for thirty-six years.
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Trying to stay alive
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