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Cuorgnè, heartbreaking farewell to Lorenzo Maio between balloons and rap music

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Funeral of 19-year-old who died of anaphylactic shock after ingesting shrimp filling on Tuesday

Flowers everywhere. The dominant color is white. To signify purity, moral integrity, the candor of youth. At least a thousand people who met yesterday afternoon, Tuesday, in Cuorgnè, for the funeral of Lorenzo Maio, the boy of only 19, who died last Thursday at San Giovanni Bosco in Turin, where he had been transferred. from the Ciriè hospital, following an anaphylactic shock that had hit him a few days earlier during a catering service in Rivara, where he was working as a waiter.

died at San Giovanni Bosco

Lorenzo inadvertently ingested a tortellino containing a filling among which ingredients included a crustacean, to which he was allergic. He would have spit it out immediately and immediately took a drug to counter the reaction, but it was not enough. Led to the emergency room of the hospital in Ciriacea, the condition of the young man, who in the meantime had collapsed, immediately appeared critical, so much so as to suggest that he be admitted to the intensive care unit of the Turin hospital, as mentioned. A slow agony, unfortunately, until his death that left an entire community petrified also due to the popularity of the family. The father, Salvatore, is the owner of the Tavernetta bar in via Torino, a historic Cuorgnatese club that counts many sportsmen among the vast clientele, a commercial activity also carried out with his brother Antonio, appreciated footballer, in the role of goalkeeper (he went up to C) , collaborator of various companies (the Facebook page of Vallorco is listed in mourning).

a thousand at the funeral

White and blue balloons, the colors of Napoli, his beloved favorite team (then released in the sky, amid applause, at the end of the rite), and rap music for Lorenzo, the ones that marked his days. Among the imposing crowd at the funeral, to testify all the possible affection to mom Monica, dad, sister Alessia, grandparents, uncles, all family members, schoolmates of the Ciac, the institute he had attended, the conscripts of 2002, many friends, many with eyes swollen with tears, unable to accept an absurd tragedy, in some ways. And municipal administrators, because losing a 19-year-old boy who had just entered life is a blow to the heart, a wound that bleeds and no one knows how and when it can be healed.

A moving ceremony, the one staged in the parish church of San Dalmazzo. The parish priest, Don Ilario Rege Gianas, officiated the funeral rite, and the homily delivered by the deacon, Roberto Perotti, was touching.

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touching homily in the church

“The passage from the Gospel of Luke is a photo taken more than 2000 years ago, in its still clear colors there is the fear, the bewilderment, the anguish of the two women for the loss of their teacher and friend and the pain born of emptiness it has left – said Perotti -. It is the exact copy of the photo we could take today in this church. They are like us with a great void inside that makes us feel helpless in the face of the unpredictability of things. We prayed, hoped and waited for the touch of a powerful hand that would bring Lorenzo back to life, nothing has come true, but he, who has received a new life, is as if he were telling us “I am in the smile of my friends, in the wind that stirs the branches, in the angry and stubborn gaze of a boy who turns into a man by slamming the door of the house, in the embrace that you will give to my parents ”. Let it fly, free spirits need immense skies and infinite spaces to live again ».

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