My mother was admitted to the military hospital in Vicenza where the United States maintains a NATO airbase. It was like going through a space time warp. The military gates were a science-fiction portal.
A step past the checkpoint gate, and it seemed I’d walked onto a movie set of America. The roofs were normal like they were su…
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