La lanterna di Nonna Rosa
Grandma Rosa's Lantern
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Quella sera, mentre tutti festeggiavano la Festa della Liberazione, io decisi di salire in soffitta.That evening, while everyone was celebrating Liberation Day, I decided to go up to the attic. Lì, tra vecchi bauli polverosi, trovai una lanterna rossa un po'rovinata ma ancora bella.There, among old dusty trunks, I found a red lantern, a bit damaged but still beautiful.
Nonna Rosa, che mi aveva seguita in silenzio, sorrise con gli occhi lucidi.Grandma Rosa, who had followed me in silence, smiled with shining eyes. «Quella lanterna», disse, «la accese mio padre la notte del venticinque aprile del millenovecentoquarantacinque.“That lantern,” she said, “my father lit it on the night of the twenty-fifth of April, nineteen forty-five. Era il segno che la guerra era finita e che potevamo finalmente tornare a vivere senza paura».It was the sign that the war was over and that we could finally return to living without fear.” Da allora, ogni anno la accendiamo insieme per ricordare quanto sia preziosa la libertà.Since then, every year we light it together to remember how precious freedom is.
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