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| A great gift was given to Ida: to live long and thus be able to enjoy the company of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The almost century of her life has allowed her to see those great scientific, technological and customs upheavals that Ida sometimes examined perplexed and disconsolate at the thought of how "times changed". Yet she, at the end of the distant "20", residing in the village of Challant-Saint-Victor, had given her small contribution to change: falling in love and marrying that "stranger", a certain Guido Giovannini, from Florence, who he was in the Valley to install the pipes that would later be used for future hydroelectric plants. Yes, the future loomed and advanced ... Hard times, those of war: fear, hunger, poverty ... Memories that Ida evoked with great sadness and that she soon pushed away in order to replace them with a present full of tranquility and feelings that bound her to her large family, where she for a long time held the role of "censorship" on choices and behaviors, because that strong character that had allowed her to overcome so many adversities, including the painful death of her husband in 1965, continued to characterize her even as the years passed. The joy of the birth of her first great-grandson Luca, in 1980, had given her a new dimension: she could be a great-grandmother, while when her grandchildren were little she had to sew to be able to get by, she could spoil him and others a little because now he had his pension, she could be more peaceful, because times had changed and for the better, at least for certain things and she always said this; she had not yet got used to the comforts that were now part of everyday life. Everything has overcome, except the illness of Romano, that son who had always been almost only her, but now she found it hard to understand and recognize. This great pain of her led her to get lost and let go, trying to deny and reject that last change that she just could not overcome. Memories
 Ida as a child with her mother, father and grandmother
 Ida with her husband Guido Giovannini
  Ida with her grandchildren in 1979
 Ida con il bisnipote Luca nel 1984
 Ida with her great-granddaughter Valentina in 1984
We also remember
Giovannini Romano, A Memory for You
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