Reader\'s Digest IN 02.2020

74 february 2020

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n a sunny Saturday in April 2017, the phone

rang in my grandmother’s house in São

Carlos, Brazil. “I’ve been looking for you for

decades,” the man on the line whispered in

Italian. “You were my first love.”

It had been more than six decades since my grand-

mother had heard the voice of Aldo Sportelli, now 83.

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By Marina Lopes

from the washington post magazine

“ I Never

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After more than six decades, a doomed teenage

romance gets a second chance

TRUE LOVE