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Sunday, 2002 December 1, 20:59 — general

bureaucracy trumps reality

The Strange Tale of Unlucky Luciano (washingtonpost.com). It happened to me, too – partly. Born to American parents in Italy, I had three birth certificates: two Italian (one since lost) and one from the US consulate in Venice. One of the Italian papers says nata, the feminine form of ‘born’. Happily, nobody ever needed to look at that one.

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