Category: FAMILY ROOTS
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TERESA
Teresa was already thirteen months old when I was born.Our parents were consumed by the love and fire of the Sixties.Commercial television did not yet exist in Italy, and it had not found its way into homes to distract families with programs stripped of human and cultural value. Couples simply made love. When I began…
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A PERSONAL RECKONING
MY TIME — AND I’M LAUGHING Origin Everyone shares one day.Not holidays, not weekdays. Instead, it is the main celebration of existence: the birthday. However, the official birthdate often does not match the real one. Years ago, procedures were different. There was no obsession with immediate registration. Parents informed the authorities when they remembered, or…
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PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION
It Has Always Been Interesting to Be Measured It has always been interesting to be measured.Not to be told you are normal. Instead, to understand how far you reach. It was the day of my fifty-second birthday. My wife and kids, with affection but no leniency, asked me to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Not because…
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A LIFE
AUTHOR PAGE Ferdinando Frega writes from a position that never seeks approval. He does not entertain, soften, or negotiate. He does not follow editorial models, does not chase audiences, does not build characters. His books do not offer solutions — they open passages. They do not celebrate success — they reveal endurance. They do not…
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GOODBYE MOM
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU The highest expression of an eternal feeling — there is no other way to say it, to show it, to generate it emotionally, sentimentally, romantically, with all the human force it carries. Unique. Essential. Devastating. The kind of force that makes man that perfect being who lives the earth through…
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A CHILD
I grew up in Southern Italy, where talent learns early that staying and becoming are rarely the same thing. People leave. They move north. Then abroad. And only there are they recognized first for who they are, and only later for what they do. That’s the real meaning of recognition. Getting a 4 out of…