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I ran<\/a>, and I started out fast and I ended fast. Before that I watched the worst 20 minutes of football I’ve ever seen in my life, seriously United looked like a team headed for relegation, not a team fighting for a spot at the top of the table, it was horrible and painful, and I don’t ever want to think or talk about that ever again. Then there was a lunch for my aunt, whom I had never met before, my grandmother’s sister-in-law was in town and wanted to have all the family get together, as she hasn’t been back to Connecticut in years. The first thing she said upon meeting me was that I looked just like my grandfather. Which most folks pick up on the Salerno side of things immediately, and most never comment on how much I really look like him instead. That hit me right in the feels. So we had fun and everyone told stories and bsed the afternoon away and ate. Then I came home, and at first I was just sleepy, but decided to run.
\nI thought a lot about grandpa, but I also thought about how my cousin read a letter from Rep. Rosa DeLauro about how a memorial plaque was going to be put up in Fair Haven Middle School to honor the 6 Salerno Brothers who served in World War 2 (5 of them) and Korea (1). Even though I believe all wars to be wars of imperialism and that they all can be avoided, it’s still pretty cool. Then I thought about how my father’s family goes all the way back to the founding of the first European settlers of New Haven Colony, and then about how I have a genetic test showing I have Native DNA as well, and considering the Hitchcock side of my father’s family also settled the New Haven area early on, and how that’s the only side where it is possible the Native DNA came from, there is a very good chance that DNA would link me to the Quinnipiac tribe, or at the very least another Algonquin tribe. So very much, my history is well entwined in the New Haven area, pretty cool. Still, I think I need to go teach English to kids in Southern Italy, I think they need it, and I think I could really be great at it, and it would give me a feeling of satisfaction. As much as I love New Haven, I also love Il Regno delle Due Sicilie. Particularly BT, Puglia.
\nThat’s what happened, that was my day. So it wasn’t a bad day, even though it got off to a terrible start. But just because something starts badly, doesn’t mean it will end that way, you always have the power to turn it around! Remember that, and have fun. Also keep running, because if Gil can run, then so can you!<\/p>\n

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