Duplicates?
When Spain was gone, she would show up. She would sing me to sleep, that Italian woman. Then later in life, I found out that she had lost her brother the day of the unification of north and south Italy. She kept a straight face.
Then Acilio showed up, and he looked too much like that Italian woman who sang me to sleep when I was only a child. He was exactly like her… But I stopped asking Acilio about that woman years ago. Now, he just works for me. I still say that Acilio and that woman from my childhood are the same person… but one is male, and the other a girl…