They are from Toronto and are about our age. In the early fifties they moved from Italy to Toronto with their own families and soon married and had five children. Now they are rich. This afternoon by the pool we met them for the first time this year. We were delighted to see them again.
It is fascinating to hear their story. He started out working as a carpenter. They saved their money and bought some land. Then they did it again. Next he started building houses on his own land but always kept expenses down. So in one lifetime, he has gone from being very poor to being very rich, but he and his wife have never changed a bit.
They have five children and fourteen grandchildren. She and I became fast friends when I observed her trying to swim and offered to help. She calls me her swimming teacher and gives us home made sauces for our pasta. Now she has ten family members coming for two weeks, for whom she will cook every meal.
Now he is going into the sheep business, on 400 acres he owns north of Toronto. He will milk the sheep or rather he will have someone milk the sheep. "That's where the money is". The milk becomes cheese. The government is taking another 200 acres for a park but he has yet to agree on a price. "Always something going on", says our friend, the Italian man from Toronto.
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