“She was tough, was she?” he asked with a wide grin, enjoying she was open to sharing so much with him.
“The toughest. She knew what she wanted, and she took it. Maybe it’s an Italian trait,” she grinned suddenly. “My parents met when my dad was travelling with some college buddies, and they fell in love instantly. She told him she was marrying him and going back to the States with him. The story goes, he told her he couldn’t support her, she called him a coward and told him to decide in the moment and gave him an ultimatum. Marry her or she’d marry someone else, and he would spend his lift with the regret of never having her. He married her the next day and they lived in a dump of an apartment for four years until he found a better job. She then decided she wanted a baby and there was no
