Gesticulation

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This is not a particularly great photo (I just happened to take it accidentally while playing with my camera), but I wanted to share it because it somehow captures a bit of the Italian spirit.These two men are fathers at the end-of-school celebration at my younger son’s elementary school. The fifth-graders have completed their first school cycle in the Italian system after having spent 5 years with the same classmates and the same teachers. Next year they will go to junior high and have to start all over, with a new school, new classmates and new professors.But, back to the “Italian-ness” of the guys in the photo…they are both quite attractive, casually well-dressed and making grand gestures. Why the gestures? …


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