Rome, on tram 8 the meeting with the murderer

Delia has always been convinced of attracting strange people, and has had confirmation of it some morning ago, when she was sitting on tram 8 and at a certain point a very special passenger approached her. The man – he would have had about 70 years – did not even look for a pretext to attack the button: out of the blue, he started telling her about his life. That was not an ordinary life."I killed two men. They wanted to kill me, and instead I killed them. I was in jail for 27 years, I went out last week. Now I'm going to the hospital with my wife who is hospitalized, she's sick, I want to be near her. In my years in prison I got two tattoos, I made them myself». And then the man opened his jacket and unbuttoned his shirt, rejecting Delia's invitations to stop ("but what does it do, is November, with the dampness that exists»). Shirtless, the former inmate exhibited his tattoos. In one was written "Better a bad process than a nice funeral". The other, right at the height of the heart, was a tribute to his wife: "Massimo – Paola – Forever".

At the San Camillo stop, the former prisoner fell. And Delia commented: traveling in Rome by public transport will be inconvenient, it will be long, but at least you will not be bored.

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