Novele, 1940

A little country situated in a tree hedge, it appears on a side where heights and big canals constitute a fairy fan. The Second World War broke out when one of my testicles inflated. This was caused by a jump from a wall. I came back home and I said it to my mum that was hardly keeping inside her tears. A neighbour calmed me and told to me: “It has been your luck, this fact will save you from the war”. In a short time, I became a soldier. I had a triple medical control, and I was assigned to the second services, remaining in the capital city for all the war period. In August, 1943, at 12 o’ clock, a strange noise of airplanes caught my attention.Luckily, I saw the american airplanes pass the zone where I was, like clear metal doves. I was followed by the chamber mates and we went to the shelter which trembled for the bombs’ explosion. The alarm stopped, and we had to assist woundeds and to regain the bodies. I hugged a girl, and I leave that place.

Igino Stella