In graying Italy, the old defy biases laid bare by pandemic – ABC News

ROME — From his newsstand at the bottom of two hilly streets in Rome, Armando Alviti has been dispensing newspapers, magazines and good cheer to locals from before dawn till after dusk nearly every day for more than a half-century.
Ciao, Armando, his customers greet him as part of their daily routine. Ciao, amore (love) he calls back. Alviti chuckled as he recalled how, when he was a young boy, newspaper deliverers would drop off the day’s stacks at his parents newsstand, sit him in the emptied…

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