Sleeping Beauty

So are you coming Alberto? Thank you, thank you so much! ”Said Signora Franca with that strange way of pronouncing her ‘z’.
Her thanks came out like a scratch.
I was always curious to hear her speak.
“All right, ma’am, I’ll try to be on time,” I replied.
I greeted her and hung up the phone.
I thought that although we had been friends for more than 10 years, since my parents had met them on a trip abroad, in Tunisia, I could not call her you.
It inspired me…