LETTER OF LOVE OF GRANDPA PAOLO TO GRANDMA VITTORIA

Milan, April 23, 1929

For you, my beloved

My sweet Victoria

In that morning from the blue sky,

while the golden rays of the sun

they peeked from the shutters

and you had opened your eyes on me

for the first time, I knew immediately that,

I would never have left you from my heart again.

It had always begun to beat

more in my chest

as soon as you smiled at me and

kissing you gently, I thought:

I finally have in my arms

the brightest star in the universe.

My mind, looking at you,

wandered in distant fantasies:

I saw myself running with you on the lawns,

hugging each other sitting on the grass by the river

and let the cool water

lapping at us gently,

while I ardently kissed your lips

so sweet, tender and passionate.

Dear my love, my passion

my heart, my Victory,

you were mine, you were my soul, my woman,

my everything and my salvation.

I dreamed of having so many children,

a house of our own,

to give you everything that I feel in my soul,

I wanted to give my life for you.

I had always heard a beating of wings in my heart

as soon as I heard your voice,

like a dream of love

suddenly bloomed,

on that morning three years ago,

when we first saw each other.

You, my star, my everything,

you gave yourself to me

after our church promise,

with all the love and passion

and from this love I am sure,

other wonderful stars will be born

that will brighten our lives.

The happiness of having you, of knowing you are close,

to find you every time I come home,

see your smile, your blue eyes

and your hugs, make me feel unique,

a man who was lucky

to have found the star in his life.

I would like to ask you to love me forever

despite my sometimes difficult nature.

To love me forever because

my heart and my soul

without you it would be destroyed with pain,

because all my thoughts

they are turned to our immense love.

I thank you for what you have given me,

give me and you will give me forever,

thank you my love, my heart

for the dedication, for the abnegation,

for all this love,

so sweet and so immense.

I would like to write you many more things, but ...

I would just like to say two words,

sweet, like a flight of angels,

like a ray of summer sun,

like a spring breeze.

Only two words that enclose the immense

and the joy I feel standing by you

everyday:

I LOVE YOU

Yours forever, Paolo.

(Revised by Giampaolo Daccò Dos Lerèn)

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