My family and I walked to Nonna\u2019s favourite place in the mountains not far from Cossato in northwestern Italy, the town in which she had grown up.<\/p>\n
Her ashes felt heavy in my hands. I threw them far up into the air, and they fell all over the grass, and all over me. My mother, brother and aunt did the same, again and again.<\/p>\n
In the end, we were covered in Nonna\u2019s ashes and so was the field around us.<\/p>\n
Months later, my mother sent me a photograph of that field. It was completely covered in flowers.<\/p>\n
Photo:\u00a0Marisa Vesco\u2019s ashes are spread by her nephew Luca Squarci at her favorite location where she grew up near Cossato, Italy, December 16, 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Photography by\u00a0Gaia Squarci<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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