Agh'avrò sempar in ment al milnovzentvintiot, quand' a s'è giazà Po. Agh'iera un fred tremend. Mi agh disea sempar ale mame...tgnì i vostri putin apena nati sota le asele al cald. Ma i m'ha brisa da' a ment, e axì iè morti quasi tuti.

Aurelia, ostetrica in pensione, classe millenovecentoquattro.

When we discovered that our dog howled like a madman listening to Moog records, especially those of the Lighthouse Keeper, we had him perform every time friends came to visit us.

The sisters Donatella and Carla Alberta Verna  and the dog Daske, in the eighties.

I think I did something significant, which remained with me, in eighty-six, when in San Martino di Venezze we  founded the association of alcoholics anonymous. We have recovered several people.

Don Giuseppe, chaplain, class nineteen hundred and sixty-one

A very important year was nineteen hundred and ninety-one, because dad finally found his girlfriend. I am happy because then maybe I can have a little brother or sister.

Andrea, when he grows up, wants to be a sailor and be an expert in football. Class nineteen hundred and eighty-three.

One year I will not forget was nineteen hundred and eighty-three. My father had a quarrel with those in the ministry, where he had gone to ask for work for us, and for saying that in Albania there was no justice in Albania, he did four years in prison.

Ezmira, housekeeper, class nineteen hundred and sixty-four.

In nineteen hundred and sixty-six I was part of a small neighborhood gang and I was met at the police station together with another, for a theft that happened in the parish. After his interrogation they wanted to detain me, like this, without any evidence. But my friend's father, who had accompanied us, opposed it decisively and got me to go with them.

I owe a lot to that man, maybe I would have become a criminal. Moreno, a worker in charge of machine maintenance, class nineteen hundred and fifty-two.

I have no memories of my past, nothing.

Mustafa, a street vendor, class nineteen hundred and forty-seven.

The year that mattered most to me was certainly nineteen hundred and sixty-one, when I decided to start my own business. So from a simple employee I became one of the most important Italian producers of brustoline, lupins and pistachios.

Remigio, dried fruit producer, class nineteen hundred and twenty-three.

There have not been very  important years in my life, except nineteen hundred and ninety-one when my daughter was born. The moment she came out was beautiful, there are no words to describe it.

Susanna, a seamstress worker, born nineteen hundred and sixty-five.