Stoic Grandmother

all day long I kept trying to find Nonna expressing some level of emotion. Finally during the Mother-Son dance, I didn't have to look very hard. Jim and his mom danced to Andrea Bocelli's "the prayer". The power of the music was incredible in and of itself, but then as the music crescendoed, Nonna couldn't keep her emotions hidden any more. She got up from her seat and came to the center of the dance floor and embraced her grandson and her daughter. A day's worth of emotion flooded her face all in a moment. There was not a dry eye in the house.