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| Nursing Home At the Nursing Home's Saturday cocktail party When each patient was given the one alcoholic drink allowed each week, An old man in a wheelchair said to an old woman in a wheelchair, "Do you remember our adultery in Napoli? An old tenor sang high notes falsetto about his primo amore. From the bed we watched blue smoke from Vesuvius. You were drunk after too many Campari. You grabbed me, screamed, 'Te voglio. Te voglio. T'amo. Amore." The old woman sneered, "No, I do not remember. Furthermore, I 've never been to Naples, or any part of Italy." The old man poured his cocktail on the rug, wheeled himself away. |
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