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‘I was tired of covering my face to hide from the mafia’: Italian MP Piera Aiello
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Aug 05, 2018 10:11am |
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| Author | Lorenzo Tondo |
| News Date | Monday, July 23, 2018 08:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Sipping a cappuccino in a cafe on Sicily’s Palermo docks, a woman is recalling a dramatic exchange with her daughter. A year ago, she explains, the 16-year-old had gone up to the attic of their home and opened a big dusty box that lay in the corner. Her parents had always forbidden her from entering the attic, or opening the box, but now the girl was determined to disobey them. Inside were about 10 packages, each individually wrapped. They were paintings: landscapes, the sea, olive groves, the deep south. All were signed with the same name: Piera Aiello.
Her mother entered the attic. “I painted them,” she said. “They’re beautiful,” her daughter replied. “But Mamma, if these paintings are yours, why are they signed by a different name? Who is Piera Aiello?”
With tears in her eyes, her mother asked her daughter to sit down. “I am Piera Aiello,” she said. “It’s time I told you who I really am.” |
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