“On the Road with Vittorio”When I awoke my head was pounding. I lifted myself off the ground and the world whirled around me. Murray was dancing in circles and barking as I tried to steady myself. I thought it best to sit back down on the ground until I could regain my senses. But Murray jumped into my lap and begged for attention.
“You are always full of love, aren’t you,” I said as I tried to pet him.
My nose was bleeding from the fall and I reached into my handbag for something I could use to wipe it. But there wasn’t a tissue in sight, not even a half-used one. I was suddenly distracted by the sound of a horse-drawn carriage coming down the road. Clippity-clop, clippity-clop. Had I been transported to another time and place I wondered to myself? Nothing seemed familiar to me. Where w
