It has been a good year (and good and interesting 50 years), I am grateful for everything and looking forward for the next 50 years. I do not forget my friends who died too early and are always with me to remind me of tring to think of the important matters.

.ps Augusto Ferri, Nicola Molnar, Giovanni Toniolo, all born 1964 died 2/1/1990. In the pictures above Simone Mazzoni, Luisa Azzena and me. The braid was not mine, I had borrowed it from Mrs. Paola Carlesi.