But he made a compromise with his dreams and settled there. The work may not have been glamorous, but it paid.
Lorenzo married a local English woman called Patricia Brown, who was also getting used to life’s disappointments,
having exchanged her dream of being an actress for the mundane, daily theatre of the suburban housewife,
and whose culinary skills were forever under the ghostly shadow of her dead Puglian mother-in-law
and her legendary spaghetti dishes, which, in Lorenzo’s eyes, could never be surpassed.
They had a baby girl within a year of getting married – Nora’s mother – and they called her Donna.
Donna grew up with her parents arguing almost continually,
and had consequently believed marriage was something that was not only inevitable, but also inevitably miserable.
She became a secretary at a law firm, and then a communications officer for Bedford council,
but then she’d had an experience which was never really discussed, at least not with Nora.
She’d experienced some kind of breakdown – the first of several – that caused her to stay at home,
and, although she recovered, she never went back to work.
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