by Kerry-Lynne Demarinis

Alison Greene is four-foot-something with a gregarious personality, dark eyes, curly hair and a quick smile. You like her as soon as you meet her. I first met Alison at a meeting for an Italian memorial in Portland, where she intrigued me with the admission that she had discovered she was Italian only 8 years ago.

Her comment brought to mind a book I had read several years ago, "Were you always an Italian?" by author Maria Laurino. Family trees usually have an empty branch or two. Alison knew she was adopted from the time she was old enough to understand what it meant. 

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano