Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
“MI husband was my life, my daily landscape, my breath and ours was a great love, but tormented. We have been together, through ups and downs, eighteen years, married for almost eleven, both for the second time. Together we had a child, even if he didn’t want to, but then he was the best of fathers… ».
I have known Paola Farinetti since we were fifteen. I know, or I thought I knew, his life, even if ours has always been a friendship at a distance: two people born in the same place, at the same time, each following their own path, and it sometimes happens that two roads cross.
I had intuited, but I did not fully know the depth of his soul until I read this beautiful book of his, beautiful from the original oxymoron that gives it its title, Surface diving (published by Gallucci).
It’s not really an autobiography, is a series of stories that each spring from an object, a madeleine, a memory.
“Surface diving” by Paola Farinetti (Gallucci publisher).
The sweetest is linked to the figure of the second husband, who is the great singer-songwriter Gianmaria Testa. «A few minutes after meeting him and kissing him on the steps of a provincial square, I thought: ‘I’m going to get married’. I felt his strength, the solidity of him walking embraced by his tenderness. And then he was handsome, of neglected beauty, black curls, glasses, mustache, two big, strong hands that knew how to hold me. We started a relationship that went underground for almost five years, every day as if it were the last, countless attempts to break up. I no longer made love as in that period, with that breathless and even a little angry intensity, with that hunger. “I know you as if I had made you” he always said to me… ».
“I know you as if I had made you”: I wish everyone a love like this, even when the ending is painful, and not because of the protagonists.
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