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Chapter 4

The wedding was memorable between Emilio and Mary. There hadn’t been a wedding at the local church in over ten years, but there were plenty of funerals.

Between the swine smells and nothing to do, very few young people stayed around town after reaching puberty long enough to get married. If they did, they went to the bigger towns such as Caperrioli for the air-conditioned church, beach, and restaurants.

The local friar, Geovani Ranieri D’Angelo, who was responsible for eight small-town churches and chapels, officiated. He has been a friar here for eighteen unrecognized years, and he was pleased when he was assigned to this circuit—few weddings.

His problem with weddings was that he was emotional and always cried at weddings. Not at funerals, just weddings. He did so many funerals, he was void of any emotion, just waiting to collect the “honoria” from the family.

There were a lot of profitable funerals. Friars have needs too!

Both Emilio’s and Mary’s parents met for a very brief period, and both had work obligations and figured the marriage wouldn’t last anyway.

They also didn’t have any money for the reception, not knowing that in town, all the neighbors chipped in to make it a celebration that would be remembered until the next one, most likely years away.

Mary and Emilio’s celebration ended with a reception hosted by the locals since they were primarily a swine city. The menu consisted of their favorites—bacon macaroni; pork-skin potatoes; pork choppettes; pork-rind pizza; pork rounds wrapped in bacon; pork belly mountain oysters wrapped in pork tongue; and in honor of Mary’s heritage, corned pork and cabbage. It was a short reception as most people where typically in bed by ten.

Mary and Emilio spent the night in the two room B and P (Bed and Pork) that seemed to always have a vacancy. Picked because it was upwind from the slaughterhouse and swine farms, it also had hot water and a shower, with B-and-P provided soap and towels. Yes, they took the soap and shampoo when they left but not the towels.

After a successful night with minor conversation, they decided to take their few money gifts and put it toward the repair of Patric’s and Aideen’s truck, mainly to get them out of town so that they could settle in without the “mother-in-law” spending her days in Mary’s small studio, clapping her hands and trying to sing along.

And it wasn’t soon after that the truck was fixed and Patric and Aideen left, in tears, to continue their music and missionary journey through Italy, with the promise that they would be back. Mary and Emilio told them not to rush, make sure they enjoyed their newly repaired truck and few extra Lira.