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Stories of a stupid war (incipit 11)

Stories of a stupid war. Rome, June 4, 1944 of Ascanio Celestini , published by Giulio Einaudi Editore in 2005.

My father was the second of four brothers.
The first is called Ernesto, and after he was born Gary, but Gary was born dead.
So when my father was born Gaetano well have called him in homage to that brother.
But the family was feeling the call with the name of the dead and for this reason that my father was always called Nino.
In this way, we called ourselves children.