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Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.

And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

Oh, Tracy, I just got back from Italy.

I know you did. You seemed so happy while you were there.

I didn't want to leave. It was a pretty great trip. And while I did actually bring materials to work on an episode while I was traveling, because you know, long flights and stuff, I got sidetracked by something else because I saw something while I was in Italy that kind of shifted all my gears and I got really

obsessed with it. So since that was the only thing I could think about, it became an episode.

So for setup, if you visit the Uffizi Museum in Florence, Italy, and if you follow the museum's

suggested path, which in and of itself is an adventure, there is this moment where you turn a corner

into a staircase, and in the sort of transitional vaulted ceiling that's over the staircase just as you're

entering it, there is a discolored imprint of a window.

Like it almost looks like somebody like drew a window on the staircase.

But then to the right of that staircase on the wall,

there is a small plaque.

And the English version of it reads,

The vault bears the mark of a window blown by the force of the mafia bomb on May 27, 1993.

So I was instantly riveted, and I looked it up.

I had a vague recollection of this event from when it happened, but I didn't remember a whole

lot of the details around it, and I was not aware that the

Uffizi is continually incorporating that story into its own story and the way it presents art.

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