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  "description": "On summer innocence, ice cream, first love, condoms and heartbreak.",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-11-14T14:14:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "By the time I placed my hand on Juliet’s breast,\nwe started to breathe again.\nIce creams for the older girls now 7 and 8.\nAperol and spritz for him.\nThe first uninterrupted days with my six-month-old baby girl.\n\nBy the time we got to Verona,\nwe had packed up a household grown over three generations in Hong Kong,\nleaving only my Harley in storage behind.\n\nBy the time we got to Verona, I’d\ngifted him grappa in Bassano,\ncooked eggplants and aubergine from the market in Padova,\nwatched my family devour pizzas and pasta in Venice.\n\nComo.\nSirmione.\nBellagio.\nVicenza.\n\nEach a step toward our new home in Portugal.\n\nMy oldest Petra is 16 now,\nand in love with a boy.\nA 16 year old boy we welcomed into our home.\nA boy I gave condoms to,\nknowing my daughter was not ready,\nbut unstoppable.\nA boy who is not integrating into the structure of my house.\n\nShe is heartbroken.\nShe has lost my blessing.\n\nMy head hurts.\nMy eyes are out of tears.\nMy hips can’t turn to get out of bed.\n\nMy mind is in Verona,\nwatching her half her lifetime ago,\nice cream smeared across her face,\nmy hand on Juliet’s breast,\nremembering my first lovers,\nwishing for hers to be kind.\n\n* * *\n\n<a href=\"https://erosramazzottibrand.bandcamp.com/album/vita-ce-n\">Vita Ce N'è by Eros Ramazzotti</a>",
  "title": "Verona",
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