Foreign News: Love in the Sun

This is a 20th Century story about a little man who did no harm, saved his money, lived in the sun and fell in love with a steam roller.

A Nice Guy. Giuseppe Dolce, a stonecutter, came from the small town of Dronero, in the Italian Piedmont. When he was 19, he went to France and got a job with a road construction company which was elegantly called La Société du Cylindrage du Littoral. He kept the job for 20 years. He was a stocky, dark man with a round face, high cheekbones and thin lips. He never smiled; neither did he...

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