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PIVOT Magazine Issue 8
Jason Miller; Edited by Chris O'Byrne
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Can you imagine being a young Italian girl in a strange country,
newly married, and scarcely able to speak the English language?
Little did Rosa know that when she first arrived in Australia, the
letter she held in her hand destined for a certain young man called
Giovabattista, would be the beginning of a courtship leading to
marriage. No sooner were the wedding festivities over, a lifetime
of enduring hardship in the cane fields of far northern Australia
becomes entrenched. Within no time, her "Batti' or John, as she
affectionately calls him, is away engaged in a war in which he had
no intention of participating. However, a passion for his new-found
country tells him he must now fight for it. He leaves his Rosa and
four children and goes to support the Australian Defense Forces
repel the invading Japanese armies in the Torres Straits. She
resolves disputes to the bitter end, and when not able to, she
displays her usual volatile anxiety syndrome. To add further to her
woes, when she was given the Malocchio (Evil Eye), Rosa's life
spiraled into serious grief and depression. Her real world comes
crashing down once again when her eldest son dies at the early age
of 38. She never reaches, or for that matter, never wants to
achieve closure. Her 'baby' Nino always endeavors to adopt a
counselling position with his mother, using his 'bush' psychology,
or psycho babble. His constant psychoanalysis to friends and family
about his philosophy of life was at times a help or hindrance,
depending on circumstances. The final stage comes when her beloved
'Batti' dies. His tragic death, although not unexpected, heralds
the last years of grief and despair until her own sorrowful
passing.
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