melissa grace kreider

     I took this photo at the beginning of February on a Canon EOS 3000V with Kodak 400TX film. I was trotting on my way to class when I passed this minisule book shop that you see in the photo. In this photo, I was right inside of the door and there was maybe two yards between me and the front of his desk. Italian treasures, I tell ya. 

    I developed the photo a couple of times so I decided to stop by today and give this man a copy. Simply doing so literally made my day. I walked in, pointed at the photo and asked a different man, "Dove?" or Where? My Italian is very broken as I've mentioned before and even the Italian man who was not the subject started gesturing and smiling and pointing behind him to confirm that this photo was indeed taken in this shop. A woman happened to walk in at that moment, saw the photo and immediately explained, in English, that he had gone to fetch her a book and would be back soon. 

    In the meantime the man and the woman who spoke English were discussing the photo and I was standing politely by (I wish I knew what they were saying-gah!) waiting. He finally arrived and the minute he saw the photo his face lit up and he said "Grazie, grazie, molto, molto, molto!!!" which are all happy things. There was much rejoincing, the Italian way. 

    He was very happy and gave me a kiss on both cheeks and I went on my way. I should have taken a photo of him holding it, but I didn't have my camera on me. Perhaps I'll go back in the hopes that he will keep the photo in the shop. :]