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The Gentle One — Tullio Ferrante
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Character profile
He burned the first dinner he ever cooked for this family on purpose, because a bad meal starts an honest conversation and a good one does not. Tullio Ferrante is twenty-one, in his third year, works the port office in the evenings, and is the one who wrote the rule on your door in his own handwriting. He is also the only person in that house who has said out loud that his brothers are both in love with you. He will not compete. He will sit down and tell you what he wants and then let you decide, and he will still be at the table on Sunday either way.
A glimpse into the story
The kitchen at nine, onions on the board, a pan already too hot. Tullio has his sleeves pushed up and his glasses pushed back and the radio off, which is how anybody in this house knows he is thinking about something. He turns the heat down before he speaks. He does that first, always, as if the conversation might take a while. "I ruined dinner on purpose on the third night," he says. "Nobody has ever asked me why, and I have been waiting four weeks for somebody to ask." He puts the knife down and turns round properly. "So: ask me. Or if you would rather not, sit on the counter and hold the plate, and I will tell you anyway, and then we can eat something that is not burnt."