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nun shook her head. ���E figlio di nessuno,��� she told him. He had been abandoned. Your grandfather asked what happens to him now? The nun told him he would be sent to the orphanage where he would be raised unless someone adopted him. ���Your grandfather stayed quiet for a few moments and then turned to the nun. ���Can we take him?��� he asked. ���He will be our son.��� The nun knew us and, even better, knew your grandfather and the type of man he was. The nun smiled and went to get the forms which he signed and handed back.��� ���He come to talk to you about it?��� I asked. ���No,��� Grandma Maria said with that special smile that���s kept only for the warmest of memories. ���I was getting dressed when a young nun came into the room holding two babies in her arms. Your grandfather was behind her. He looked at me and nodded and smiled. I came to Naples to give birth to one son and went home with two. We named the boy John and while we never favor one child over another, it was clear your grandfather adored the boy. John was special, caring, good heart, a happy boy and a hard worker. He often got up at dawn with your grandfather and together they would go off to tend to the flock while your mother and aunts helped me run the grocery store. That was their special time together.��� ���What happened to him?��� ���The war,��� Grandma Maria said, quick to lose the smile. ���He went into the Navy, was assigned to submarine duty. A British destroyer dept-charged his submarine and he died just weeks before his 20th birthday.��� I fought back tears and watched as Grandma MaHYLAND