The year was 2005. Me and my wife Sarah, pregnant with our first child, we are preparing to move from a house of 100 square feet for rent (€ thousand three hundred per month) to a house of 48 sq.m + courtyard in the same purchase (loan ranging from 900 to 1300): the existing house where we live! My wife found this little gem of the house in which we live with our three children and now the cat while we were deciding, reluctantly, to go a bit 'out into the Gra. Providence gave a tip to Sarah and we were in the area fairly central, however well served. With my wife pregnant, we started the move helped by geologists (imaginary group of which I speak also in the dedication in one of my books, but I leave you to discover the identity) and Hugh and Paul, Daniel and Raffaella and so on. Some frames will remain in our memory forever. Certainly Hugh and Paul crossing the streets inside the Pineta Sacchetti, a torso naked, carrying her up the bed mattress which was not in the car. Surely even the night before, with friends geological, to party on the balcony and drink as much as possible to empty the bottles have accumulated over the years and therefore less weight to be moved (if not in body) and then Daniel and his van overloaded with boxes because as soon as you start to make a move to discover how many things there are, hidden in a house ... and how many forget it. Upon entering the new house you know what he told me Sara? "When Mauro 25 years will end up paying for this house." And I answered: "It will be easier to keep count." And we hugged, smiling. This is a story I think
common to many of you friends and readers, almost all Italian couples, our grandparents and parents and I also would reach the ears of politicians, actors, sports executives, journalists squatting (and not hide behind regular contracts) some houses in the center or center of our city and cost ridiculous, perhaps without children to support and stay.
Shame. How not to collect? (I say this with the S because I will not write bad words or else my mom yells at me!).
Shame. Home Why us spend our whole life and you should be ashamed of being prosperous and more, making dumb, take advantage of knowledge of laws and to usurp privileges to the people and the needy: right, left or league north you are. Shame.
The excellent journalist colleague of Free (and beyond) Brunella Bolloli is conducting a survey exceptional continues Brunella and those of us who know something to provide him with the tips to continue this fight social exclusion. However, Brunella, if those houses then return vacant and abandoned, I and my family, at that price, of course, we offer to take care of them. 6 years of marriage and three children, I must not be rewarded? O can not be awarded because I am Italian, honest, work and do not steal?
During the last day for life, in their message, the bishops have also written this sentence I like that because back then, as now, I heard addressed to me: "We remember with gratitude to the many families in their homes who care for elderly family members and spouses who, sometimes in hardship, enthusiastically welcome new creatures . But it serves justice. We are not capable of revolutions, as in North Africa and there is no need, however, leave the house because we feel the sweat there and make miracles every day to live in five and it's all a game of joints better than tetris ... . and my wife should be the Minister for the Family!
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