The Rivas lived near Milan, in northern Italy, far away from Rome. A few weeks after he talked to them on the phone, Giorgio flew north. He lived with the Rivas for a while to see if he got along well with them. Everything went well; he liked the whole family and they all liked him.

Giorgio went back south and packed. When he was ready to move, Marlena flew to Rome to help him. They flew back to Milan together. There were newspaper reporters and photographers on the plane.

A while later, there were stories in the papers about how Giorgio and the Rivas were having a happy life together. The stories told how Giorgio was helping in the kitchen and how he was helping Dagmara with her homework. The stories also said that Giorgio was getting up early in the morning so he could spend a few minutes with Marlena before she went to work.

In the beginning, Giorgio missed his cats. After a while, Elio drove him to Rome to get them. But when they tried to put the cats into baskets, they ran away; so they had to leave them with Giorgio’s old neighbours. Later, Giorgio said he didn’t miss the cats anymore and he added: “They never cared. Cats don’t really care.”

-information from: The Telegraph (UK), 01.05.11; The Observer (UK), 01.08.15 (John Sweeney and Bill Law); Legal Business, (UK) 01.11 (Matthew Rushton); The Guardian (UK) 03.01.29; The Observer, 03.02.02 (John Sweeney); The Observer, 03.06.15 (John Sweeney); http://www.sallyclark.org.uk/lockyer.html (Frank Lockyer);