Lucie was born two years later but my father was very ambitious and he moved to Antwerp where he bought a huge house at number 72 of Avenue de France.

With a wonderful balcony and three floors plus the basement .

This is where the Tank was born and also Ruben Souroujon.

When I was seven he hired from Calabria and Sicily two young servants .

Very nice kids twenty year old , and very honest .

We had some good laughs together as they spoke very little french and no flemish at all which was the language of the maids at that time .

But these Italian kids sometimes mentioned a name in Italian , I believe it was SABRA or something like that .

All I know is that every time they mentioned that name Lucie was  laughing like crazy and Raphael was furious.

I asked them what it meant and they said I was too young to know and when I asked my sister and my brother they just stalled .

After 85 years I still did not get the joke and not even in Google did I ever found out what it was .

My father loved everything that was Italian and every two or three months the Dorigato came to visit us for a few days sometimes a whole week .

Each time in a really very large Italian car , the latest models of Lancia and Bugatti , once in a stupendous convertible called IF and they were very nice .

It was my father who introduced Herman Benbassat to the Italian lemons and he made a fortune selling them to the grocery stores.

At that time Supermarkets did not exist yet but when they started it was Herman who sold the lemons

That is why there was a joke and they used to call him Limoniko in Ladino.

But he did not mind and laughed all the way to the bank .

 
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