Carmella Commands
until he was out of the hospital, and criticized Tommaso as sternly as she dared.
What Carmella did not know was that Tommaso’s one experience with a hospital was after the Piave in the great war, where emergency operations were performed in an ancient farmhouse with scant medical equipment.
Never again did he want to see the beds of a hospital. The thought made him sick inside.
Carmella was later to find many things which she took as a matter of course, yet which were wonderment or misery or both for her parents.
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