So I guess I'm saying this whole scenario sounds like a tall tale.

Personally, I think so, too.

But I told it exactly the way Bill relayed it to me. (He wasn't in Italy
himself, so I suppose there is the slight chance that this story has taken
on mythic, some might say heroic proportions in the re-telling over the
decades? :-)
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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