Getting A.J. out of here seems to be a bit of a project, after all. There was a minor technical foul-up in his naturalization, way, way back. I don’t know the details, but he never bothered to correct it. The new consul general in Rome is a sort of prissy bureaucrat, and he’s creating difficulties. All this will straighten out, of course—they’ve said as much in Rome—but it’s taking time.
