Years went by and Angelo and his brother Giuseppe married two sisters.
When his daughter was born, Angelo was milking in the stable. Once he got his child was a girl, he kicked the bucket and spilled the milk. But then there was a special relationship between them and it was perhaps because she always showed a manly soul.
Then, out of the blue, the sharecropping contract was not renewed and eight brothers and their families were out on the street. In the chaos that followed, the family dispersed, each looking for solutions.
There was Pane e Vino (Bread and Wine), a serving of wine and small shop, that two old people were selling in Curtatone, near Mantua. It was 1942, and the two brothers, with their wives and children, made those ten km and started a new life. Giuseppe sold the bread, Teresa cleaned up, Angelo and his sister in law worked in the kitchen; they were good enough to fill the place immediately.
In war time, there was so much hunger and the first customers were the carters, ancestors of the truck drivers who promptly replaced them a few years later.
At school, Lina had been Gregorio's classmate, the only case in history of a pupil being demoted from third to second grade by the teacher, Aunt Rosa, his father's sister.