italouruguayan
Regular Member
- Messages
- 473
- Reaction score
- 390
- Points
- 63
- Location
- Montevideo, Uruguay
- Ethnic group
- Mixed , mostly Italian
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- R1B U106 L44
- mtDNA haplogroup
- A2
For myself, they're all gone, my father and all his brothers and sisters in the last 20 years or so, although they all lived relatively long lives, all reaching into their 80s except my father. (Meanwhile, I have great aunts in Italy in their mid 90s. Come back to aria tua one of them used to say to me.)
It's very sad making, particularly my parents, of course, but also my aunts and uncles. My nostalgia for my youth, when we would all gather together, with all my myriad cousins, is like a knife in my heart. When the last of them went, this particular aunt, it felt lonely, you know, and a bit scary. I'm definitely the adult now.
There's an old American movie called "How Green Was My Valley" which captures this kind of feeling like no other. I've seen it probably a dozen times and it reduces me to tears each and every time. John Ford directed it and the actors were all top notch as well.
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