Last time Flo evoked her Italian American father. Now she talks about the role her Italian heritage has played in her own existence. How it has shaped significant aspects of her life, from her childhood to the family she has raised with her husband (himself of Italian descent). How it has sometimes escaped her and how she has found new ways to nurture it.
She’s pictured above with her elder sister in the late 1950s, in front of their father’s first purchase in America — a set of Encyclopedia Brittanica.