“What kind of letters?”
“That’s what I wanted to talk to you about. If I don’t come back, there will be some money for you. But to get the money, you have to take this letter to the Military Attaché.”
“I don’t want any more of your money. What are you talking about, giving me more money? This is crazy.”
“Goddamn it, if I go away, I won’t need any money, and I want you to have it.”
“I want to know what’s in this envelope,” Maria-Teresa said firmly.
“Help yourself. They’re in English; you won’t know what you’re reading.”
She opened the envelope and took from it two sheets of paper.
Tony was right. She couldn’t understand much of either of them.
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
28 December 1942
To Whom It May Concern:
Through: The Military Attaché
U.S. Embassy
Buenos Aires, Argentina
I desire to change the beneficiary of my National Service Insurance from Mrs. Pasquale Pelosi, 818 Elm Street, Cicero, Illinois USA, to Miss Maria-Teresa Alberghoni, c/o Ristorante Napoli, Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Anthony J. Pelosi 0-538677
2nd Lieut CE, AUS
(On TDY from Army Detachment
Office of Strategic Services
National Institutes of Health Building
Washington, D.C.)
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December 28, 1942
Somewhere in Argentina
PLEASE FORWARD TO:
Mr. Pasquale Pelosi
818 Elm Street
Cicero, Illinois