Il portafoglio smarrito

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he thinks that maybe he will have to call the police to report the loss.
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“Can you describe it?”
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“At what time were you here?” she asks.
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When Nico he returns to the car, he sits down in the driver’s seat without starting the engine and he tries to understand where it could be ended up the wallet.
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It is that sharp drop in the stomach which means: it was here, and now it is not there anymore.
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the staff member she nods, she types something and she disappears to check the items lost.
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“it has slipped out”, he thinks to himself.
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“Which checkout have you used?” he replies the employee.
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they check around his locker and at the bench, under the bench, behind, near the showers—nothing.
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At the supermarket he remembers to have it pulled out to pay.
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Surely it happens to many to forget the wallets in the lockers, they say. Nico he tries to smile. “Thank you for your time,” he says.
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Nico he nods and they start walking into the changing room.
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he leaves her anyway his number.
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Nico he freezes, then he pulls back the hand and the wallet it comes out like a secret guilty—black, folded, familiar, with the small scratch on the corner.
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To him they open wide the eyes.
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Nico he repeats the description: black, in leather, foldable, small scratch, ID inside.
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The employee he nods as if it happened every day. “When you have it lost?”
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“Wait here,” he says the employee. Nico he waits, listening the beeps, the footsteps, the people who they talk about dinner.
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The employee he opens a drawer and he checks without much ceremony. Nico he looks, pretending of nothing. The employee he shakes the head. “Nothing that it matches to that description, and certainly no wallet with your document.”
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So the last moment when he remembers it in his hand it is at the checkout of the supermarket.
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It is not the small worry of the “maybe it is at home”.
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“I have emptied it”, he says Nico.
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he looks between the seat and the centre console.
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I was here before.”
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In the gym he does not remember to have touched it at all, because he has done the check-in with an app.
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