Word: negrini
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...Punch in the Nose. It was at Mme. Lebrun's in 1949 that Claire, a lanky, plain girl of 18, met Father Luciano Negrini, an English-speaking Italian priest, 41 years old. A veteran of 15 years as a missionary in China, Father Negrini had been sent by his bishop to the U.S. to win friends and funds for the mission in Hupeh. He won so close a friend in Claire that last September U.S. ecclesiastical authorities sent him back to Italy under charges of "bad conduct...
Last January Claire headed for Italy. On her own savings from jobs, she had left home without a word. For six months she and Negrini lived together in a shabby one-room apartment near Milan which he shares with two elderly aunts, a cousin and several cats. But Claire found Italy "beautiful and peaceful" - until the American consulate demanded her passport to return her to the U.S. as a minor living abroad without her parents' consent. Claire refused, said she would renounce her American citizenship first, and got an Italian soggiorno (residence permit), which expired this week...