Natascia Tornetta Mallin

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“Ospedaletti” by Natascia Tornetta Mallin

Submitted to Contest #140

I remember when Aerosmith’s Crazy was at the top of the charts. My brother and I were eleven and nine, respectively, and stuck in the room for unaccompanied children at Charles De Gaulle airport watching MTV videos on loop. It was the first time we were going back to Italy without our parents. During the two-hour layover between Paris and Turin, Steven Tyler stepped in like a surrogate father as I tried desperately to pick out the watermelon bubble gum my brother had smooshed into my hair on the flight over from L.A. I’m losin...

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