An Old Love Remembered
"Will you tell me the story of your first love?", Luciana eagerly asked her grandmother. "Mio amore," Grandma Laura replied, smiling, "the time will come when I will tell you all about a very special boy and an old woman's youthful days." Luciana explained, "I always like the stories of Grandpa but I also love hearing stories from when you were my age and in love. I just want to picture what he was like." Luciana always knew that Grandma had loved Grandpa Bob, but she could tell that the boy of her youth had always held a deeply precious place in her heart. She seemed happy when she talked of him, but along with her happy reminiscence, lingered an overhanging feeling of sadness--of a life and love lost. "To start to understand the story, I want you to go to the mountains that he loved so dearly," Laura said. "My first love is so much a part of those Italian slopes, I sometimes feel as if he is still there in that cool air...