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He took a deep breath, picked up his loupe, and began to work. He was still afraid of the void she left behind, but as the carousel began to chime its tiny, tinny melody, he understood that carrying that fear was just another way of carrying her love.

Gennaro was a man of precision. For forty years, he sat behind a velvet-lined workbench in a shop no wider than a doorway, repairing the heartbeat of the city—its watches. But the only clock that ever truly mattered to him was the sound of his wife, Lucia, humming as she hung laundry across the balcony above. a_vita_senz_e_te_me_fa_paura

After the funeral, Gennaro returned to his shop. The ticking of a hundred clocks, once a symphony, now sounded like hammers against his chest. He picked up a delicate gold pocket watch, his fingers trembling. He whispered into the still air, He took a deep breath, picked up his