Gianluca had brought his family to live there because

there was enough space to make a stable

and accommodate two mules and a horse, which were his passion.

And also of his three sons.

Maurizio and Giovanna were left homeless after the 2017 earthquake, and instead of restoring the one that was affected, they decided to renovate another one they had on Via Celario.

With a garden around it and the baby's room that, after waiting for it for a long time, had just arrived.

Eleonora and Salvatore had renovated an old ruin, but they only lived there occasionally.

When he was on board and at sea for up to six months, she moved with her mother to Lacco Ameno.

At that time Salvatore was not on board.

Nikolinka, who was called Nina here, normally lived in Berlin with her partner from Ischia.

But they had wanted to keep the house close to the foot of Mount Epomeo, and Nina

had just returned there to collect the certificate of Italian citizenship

, which had been her wish for so many years.

Gianluca, Maurizio, Giovanna, Eleonora, Nina.

And then Valentina, Gianluca's wife, and her children, Michele, Francesco and Maria Teresa.

And, again,

Giovangiuseppe, the youngest of all, who only stayed in the world for 22 days

, not even the time for Maurizio and Giovanna to get used to being parents.

And there is another name to count, the twelfth, that the official sources do not provide (nor do those of those who are still considered missing) and in Piazza Maio, where everyone knows each other, no one is sure.

He may be a relative of Giovanna, but it is not known yet.

We have to wait.

Just wait, don't hold out hope.

Because the mud,

as a fire officer comments while coordinating the excavation operations at the house of Maurizio Scotto di Minico and Giovanna Mazzella, where their bodies and that of the baby Giovangiuseppe will be recovered after hours,

leaves no way out or survivor .

At least not when he falls from a mountain and

his fury grows and he comes down with such force that he breaks houses.

and covers all that remains standing.

A part of the little room where Francesco and María Teresa, who were eleven and six years old, slept, was left standing.

First they found her, then her little brother.

They say that María Teresa wore pink pajamas: who knows who and how she understood what was happening, before the black curse covered her.

Now they are looking for Gianluca, Valentina and Michele, their first son, 15 years old.

Officially they are still missing, but in

that black ruin that has become their home,

there is no life anymore: it is only a matter of reaching where death is hidden under tons of mud.

Even Gianluca's horse is dead.

Not the mules, perhaps there were two stables and only one was run over: a matter of fate.

The same one that led Gianluca's brother to book a vacation in Spain with his family just these days.

They also lived there, and their house was also destroyed in the avalanche.

If they had been in Ischia, the list of dead would be longer.

And if Salvatore Impagliazzo, Eleonora Sirabella's companion, had not postponed the boarding, both would have been saved and at least one family, the least numerous of the three that the collapse destroyed, would be safe from the tragedy.

Eleonora was the first to be found, they are still looking for him.

The relatives and friends of Giovanna, Maurizio and their very young son, on the other hand, believed that they should not be looked for.

The communication short circuit of the first hours had given them first as missing and then found alive.

Only the first news was true.

They were found yesterday afternoon.

All together, as if the mud had at least a little shame in taking Giovan Giuseppe away from his mother and his father from him.

Looking now at that stretch of mountain that in the place names of the municipality of Casamicciola is called via Celario, even though it is not a real street, one does not find the meaning of the choice made by all those who have gone to live there.

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The houses were close together but scattered, and the mountain was imposing even before it spewed up earth, logs, and washed-out debris.

However, in those houses that have become tombs, a small community of young families chose to live nearby.

Other than Nina, who was born in 1964 and didn't live here permanently anyway, and other than the children, everyone else was in their thirties.

And they were all friends, if not relatives, like Gianluca and his brother, or Giovanna, who was his cousin.

And as perhaps the last victim whose name is not revealed.

young families,

each with their own projects, dreams and illusions.

Simple and normal things that the mud has taken away.

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