Il portafoglio smarrito

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“Hi”, he says Nico.
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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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he reaches out the hand slowly and the fingers they touch the leather.
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It is not the small worry of the “maybe it is at home”.
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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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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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of the wallet there is no trace.
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he looks between the seat and the centre console.
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“Think.” he rewinds the day in his mind.
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After that, he has put it back in his pocket as usual?
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Nico he goes to customer service and he tries to keep steady the voice.
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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 goes well. Thank you.” Maybe I have it left in the gym, he thinks to himself. Maybe I have it left by mistake in one of the lockers.
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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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Nico he nods and they start walking into the changing room.
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“Can you describe it?”
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To him they open wide the eyes.
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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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“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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Now he is here with the groceries and without a wallet.
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“We can check.”
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The employee he comes back. “No wallet handed in to checkout six.” Nico he nods, feeling the chest tighten.
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Nico he thinks about it hard. “Checkout six, near the self-checkouts.”
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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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