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"Buon Giorno!"

Fresh from Sunday mass, Joe Vitale shouts this greeting to the sky.

His towering fig trees await. At this house, he has eight that form a
green canopy over his postage stamp of a front yard. Below them,
sheltering in their shade, are a half dozen cuttings he's rooting. In
the back, he has four fine trees.

At his other house, around the corner, he's blessed enough to have two.

And now he wants to give me one.

more at (including pics):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-ruhling/astoria-characters-the-fi_1_b_910656.html