He taught us a lot about working hard, seeking excellence and reaching our goals. He left us a strong sense of what we can offer the world.
My father represented a lot of things to my sisters and me as young women growing up.
He didn’t have to do much. He just had to be who he was. Born in Sgurgola, Frosinone, Italy — with all its attributes, customs and traditions, family, townsfolk, music, dance,, food, colours and smells — he nurtured our happiness and appreciation of where our family came from.Article contentI remember a particularly difficult time for me in my career, a few years back. I decided to go visit my Aunt Lia, my dad’s sister, in Sgurgola for a week. I had left Canada sad, discouraged and ambivalent.
My father has always represented for me the joining of two cultures, with all his family still in Italy, straddling both sides of the Atlantic, with one foot in Ottawa and the other symbolically in Sgurgola.Article content
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