Brain drain? No, of hearts!

Not only do the brains flee from Italy, the hearts sometimes do. Orestes comes from Sardinia and lives in Dublin. When we visit, the first thing he says is a homosexual. It seems almost a liberation, a topic that in Italy, years before, had never touched. Not that the thing itself move an inch the conversation, but we realize what will feel freer to talk about it now, hundreds of miles away from home.