Delizia wants to ask Tommaso what on earth he is wearing, but the words won’t escape her clenched jaw. She stares at Tommaso in his homemade head-to-toe suit, lumpy and bulbous. “I spent all night making it, in my medium of choice—papier-mâché.” His voice is muffled because his head is mostly obscured by a beige lump of dried newspaper and glue. “He has come dressed as a testicle!” complains Duccio. Twins Valentina and Rosa arrive, their arms full of an old doll collection. “Are you supposed to be a testicle?” they chant. The small amount of Tommaso’s exposed face burns bright red at the
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