Over the summer Mr Di Pietro made a whistlestop tour of Italy armed only with a megaphone and some paper for collecting signatures.

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She would call my dad daily to find out what new stories I was working on so that she could tell her Whistlestop driver, the store clerk and even her physician, to watch.

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