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Andy

Andy

Italian mature, expressive speaker with warm tones and shades

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Violetta

Violetta

A warm, clear, and engaging voice with a smooth, natural tone

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Giancarlo

Italian middle aged, warm voice

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Manuela

Warm, clear and versatile Italian voice

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Il portafoglio smarrito

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Nico he remembers a thing small and annoying: in the supermarket car park he has sat down in the car for a moment, he was too hot, he has taken off the jacket and he has adjusted his jeans because the wallet in the back pocket it was bothering him while he was driving.
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Nico he leans back against the backrest and he holds the wallet with both hands, letting that the fear it leaves him.
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“I am sure.”
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“it has slipped out”, he thinks to himself.
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he asks himself a question simple: when he remembers for the last time to have touched physically the wallet?
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“Have you checked your locker?”
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“If someone hands it in, could you call me”, he says, and she writes it down.
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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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No wallet.
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Nothing.
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he looks between the seat and the centre console.
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Nico he repeats the description: black, in leather, foldable, small scratch, ID inside.
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Nico he goes to customer service and he tries to keep steady the voice.
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Nico he realizes that his wallet it is missing in that exact moment when he pats the back pocket and he feels nothing.
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he checks in all the usual places: on the table of the kitchen, on the sink, on the small shelf near the entrance.
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“Which checkout have you used?” he replies the employee.
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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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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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“About two hours ago”, he says Nico.
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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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“Ok,” he says Nico in a low voice.
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Nico he thinks about it hard. “Checkout six, near the self-checkouts.”
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Inside the supermarket the air it smells of warm bread and of cold fruit and vegetables.
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Then he looks in the narrow gap on the door side, that dark space it collects coins and lost time.
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The employee he nods as if it happened every day. “When you have it lost?”
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