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Christmas in Naples, meal scene with cousins, speaking of not being able to get angry

May 26, 2025

At an unforgettable and hilarious Neapolitan dinner table, I found myself TRYING to COMMUNICATE two sentences: my mother gave me away to a total stranger (though really wrapped me up in sex scandal) and my father was then diagnosed with dementia that he didn’t tell anyone about. My family’s theatricality turned my story into sport, performance, and interrogation. I couldn’t get angry, not even when they laughed, minimized, or simply didn’t understand. This wasn’t just dinner. This was a war of language, memory, and emotion—and I was outmatched until I wasn’t.

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In Memoir, Family & Relation Tags family dysfunction, emotional repression, rage, Italian family, storytelling, identity, trauma narrative, Neapolitan culture, dinner table politics, performance and identity, intergenerational trauma, childhood memory, healing through writing

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