ARGENTINA
Gazzetta del Sud
(By Martino Rigacci) Buenos Aires, March 14 – They were little more than children when he, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the future Pope Francis, delivered a love letter with a drawing of a little white house in which he would have liked to live with her. He wrote, “If I don’t marry you, I will make myself a priest”. How things actually went is now known to the world, but his girlfriend at the time, Amalia – today white-haired – recalled the episode in interviews with Argentine journalists. “I hope he always remains what he is, never abandons that path, and that he always remembers Argentina,” she told journalists, amused by so much interest.
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