The half-life of Ant Zaniolo

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THIS IS THE one memory of Ant I fully trust.

I’m in the backyard, in the veggie patch littered with Nonno’s prized tomatoes – the ones he insisted on planting as a house-warming gift. It’s the day I first took the chair from the kitchen and put it between rows of stakes in the vegetable patch. I wanted to smoke outside without Mama being able to see me.

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Mikele Prestia

Mikele Prestia is a writer, freelance journalist and legal advocate. His work has appeared in The Saturday Paper, among others.

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