Il portafoglio smarrito

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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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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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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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he asks himself a question simple: when he remembers for the last time to have touched physically the wallet?
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“Could it be at the checkouts?” he asks Nico.
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“Think.” he rewinds the day in his mind.
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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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At the supermarket he remembers to have it pulled out to pay.
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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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Second stop: the gym. he has done the check-in from the phone, he has used a locker, he is worked out, he is done the shower, he is gone out.
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Nico he thinks about it hard. “Checkout six, near the self-checkouts.”
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he stares at it for a second, as if it could be a joke, then he laughs, half relief and half anger.
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“There isn’t”, she says.
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It is not the small worry of the “maybe it is at home”.
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he limits himself to put the wallet in the front pocket—where he should have be from the beginning—he starts the car and he goes back home lighter, not because the wallet it weighed, but because the panic it has disappeared.
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Nothing.
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“I think to have lost the wallet today.
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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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“Today earlier, I believe around ten,” he says Nico. “Can you describe it?” he asks the employee.
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of the wallet there is no trace.
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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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“I am sure.”
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“I have emptied it”, he says Nico.
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The employee he nods as if it happened every day. “When you have it lost?”
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Nico he swallows. “Black, in leather. Medium-sized. It folds. There is a small scratch on the corner. Inside there is my ID card.”
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