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\u201dDad, we want you to come home.\u201d Even through the poor Skype connection I could see the tightness of Karin\u2019s face, hear the stress in her voice.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t do it, sweetheart. Everything\u2019s closed. Flights are canceled. The whole country is shut down. Don\u2019t worry. I\u2019m fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019re anxious and wish you were back in the States, at least in the same time zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

I had planned to sit out the crisis right where I was\u2014in southern Italy, near Calabria, where I lived and worked as a yacht captain for half the year. But if my family needed me, I had to get back to Connecticut. My work here had dried up anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll do my best,\u201d I promised Karin.<\/p>\n

Angel #1<\/b><\/p>\n

I tried to find a flight online but had no luck, then called a travel agent<\/a> friend, Sue. \u201cDon\u2019t get your hopes up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile I managed to cobble together a pair of flights that would get me to New York in mid-April, almost a month away. It would cost a fortune\u2014more than $1,000\u2014and could be canceled at any minute, but what choice did I have? I entered my credit card information. The website didn\u2019t accept it. I tried another. Same problem. What on earth?<\/i> I thought. None of my cards work!<\/i><\/p>\n

I held for the online help desk and gave up when Sue called back. \u201cCan you leave on Saturday?\u201d she asked. It was Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes!\u201d I replied quickly. Sue had found a Saturday flight on Alitalia from Lamezia Terme International Airport, in Calabria, to Rome.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll have a one-hour layover in Rome,\u201d Sue said, \u201cand then take a KLM flight from Rome to JFK in New York\u2014all for only $400.\u201d<\/p>\n

It sounded too good to be true\u2014and it was. Why had I given up on the online help desk? \u201cLamezia Terme is closed,\u201d I said. \u201cThey just announced it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cClosed except for a flight for medical personnel and equipment. I pulled strings and got you a seat. The flight leaves Saturday at 11 A.M.\u201d<\/p>\n

I had one day to figure out how to get to the airport in Calabria. That wouldn\u2019t be easy. Under Italy\u2019s nationwide lockdown, a form had to be completed every time you left the house, even for the grocery<\/a> or the pharmacy. Driving out of town entailed a whole new layer of regulations, including stamped and certified permission from police headquarters, which was manned only two days a week, neither of them Thursday or Friday.<\/p>\n

It was time to call Pina.<\/p>\n

Angel #2<\/b><\/p>\n

Pina was my go-to person for anything I needed in Italy<\/a>. She made photocopies, laminated documents, helped with taxes and generally assisted in navigating the labyrinth of Italian bureaucracy. \u201cIt\u2019s impossible,\u201d she said when I explained my situation. That eased my mind. Whenever Pina said something was impossible, she was determined to figure out a way. \u201cCall me back in two hours.\u201d I considered it a done deal.<\/p>\n

Two hours later I arranged to meet Pina at her office by 9:30 Saturday morning. From there she would drive me to the airport.<\/p>\n

Angels #3 and #4<\/b><\/p>\n

We arrived early Saturday morning at Lamezia Terme airport. The place was deserted but for two policemen blocking the main entrance. One of them, judging from his gold insignia, was in charge. \u201cWhere are you going?\u201d he said, as I struggled up the entrance ramp with my heavy backpack, wheeling my suitcase behind me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a flight,\u201d I replied, waving my reservation printout.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe airport is closed. All flights have been canceled.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot this one.\u201d I handed over the reservation to the policeman in charge. He looked perplexed and conferred in whispers with his partner.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you a doctor?\u201d he said finally.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, but I\u2019m on the medical flight.\u201d<\/p>\n

The policemen didn\u2019t seem happy about it, but they let me in. I wandered through the empty airport and sat down in the departures lounge, my flight still two long hours away. After a while, I was directed to a booth where my passport was checked, my flight confirmed, my hold luggage collected. I went through security, which was represented by a couple of bemused policemen. I was the only passenger in sight. Where are all the medical personnel?<\/i> I wondered.<\/p>\n

Looking out the windows of the gate lounge, I could see one jet, not at the gate, but on the tarmac 100 yards away. As I watched, a luggage cart approached the plane with a suitcase\u2014mine. Cool<\/i>, I thought. I\u2019ve never watched my luggage loaded before.<\/i><\/p>\n

An hour and a half to go, I opened my book.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are you doing here?\u201d It was my policeman friend, looming over me.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo we have to go through this again? I\u2019m waiting for my flight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIs that it?\u201d<\/p>\n

I looked up. There was another airplane outside\u2014a twin-engine turboprop parked a few yards from the jet. The last of a line of whitegowned, masked, obviously medical personnel was marching from the small plane into the larger one. Before my eyes, the jet door closed and the mobile boarding platform slowly backed away. \u201cBut it\u2019s still an hour to boarding!\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

The policeman grabbed my arm, I grabbed my backpack. I was frogmarched through a door and down a flight of steps to a desk that guarded the door opening to the tarmac. No one was at the desk. The door was locked. \u201cFerma l\u2019aereo!\u201d<\/i> the policeman barked into his radio. The jet engines began winding up. A woman in an airline uniform appeared. She and the policeman engaged in a rapid-fire conversation, most of which went over my head. The little I could understand wasn\u2019t good. A tow cart approached the airplane.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy luggage is aboard that airplane,\u201d I hollered. \u201cAnd it\u2019s early! That plane cannot leave without me!\u201d<\/p>\n

The policeman and the uniformed woman looked at me in surprise. I\u2019d surprised myself. I\u2019d spoken perfect Italian! The woman picked up the phone. After a few moments the mobile boarding ramp nuzzled the airplane again, the front door opened and I was beckoned ahead. I lurched across the tarmac, looking back to say, \u201cGrazie mille, i miei angeli.<\/i> Thank you so much, my angels.\u201d<\/p>\n

Angel #5<\/b><\/p>\n

You could roll balls of pasta dough through the gargantuan main arrival lounge of Rome\u2019s Fiumicino Airport and not hit anyone\u2014it was that empty. Massive flight announcement boards pulsated overhead with red FLIGHT CANCELED announcements. Hidden among the garish roseate bursts was the rare line of green text. I found my flight to JFK. As planned, I had an hour to clear customs, and then I would be home free.<\/p>\n

I hurried through the maze of crowd-control aisles\u2014the crowd was me\u2014and approached the customs kiosk. The officer swiped my passport and looked closely at his screen.<\/p>\n

\u201cMay I see your soggiorno<\/i>, please?\u201d he asked through his face mask.<\/p>\n

The soggiorno<\/i> is the residency permit that foreigners who work in Italy must have. I had one\u2014packed in my luggage on the airplane. \u201cI\u2019ve only ever had to show a passport in order to fly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The officer looked down at the screen again, then back at me. \u201cYou were asked for it on another occasion and failed to show it. And now you do not have it again. Have you been working without a soggiorno<\/i>?\u201d<\/p>\n

Then I remembered. Last month my boat had been boarded by the Italian Coast Guard\u2014a routine boarding. The officer scanned my passport, which I always carried, but I had left the soggiorno<\/i> behind. I faxed a copy as soon as I made port, but that information didn\u2019t seem to have made it into the system.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, my flight is boarding in just a few minutes. If I miss it, I don\u2019t know when I\u2019ll be able to get home. I have the soggiorno<\/i>. I swear it. I\u2019ll mail you a copy as soon as I get to the States.\u201d<\/p>\n

He shook his head. \u201cI\u2019m sorry. We\u2019ll have to wait for my supervisor.\u201d My path home to Karin and the kids was fast disappearing, and I was so close.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see that you fly into Milan often,\u201d the customs officer said, looking at his screen. \u201cDo you have relatives living there?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d I said distractedly. \u201cI take the train from Milan to Bologna, where I lived for a few years and still visit good friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

His head lifted. \u201cBologna? My mother lives in Bologna.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poor guy,<\/i> I thought. Bologna had been hit hard by Covid-19. He must be worried.<\/i> \u201cIs she well?\u201d<\/p>\n

His eyes watered above his mask. \u201cYes, so far. But she\u2019s alone. Her neighbors<\/a>, her friends\u2014they all look in on her.\u201d<\/p>\n

I thought of all the people sick and dying, the anxiety we all felt<\/a> being separated from our loved ones, even if we were healthy. Everyone I\u2019d come across in my odyssey to get home was in the same boat. It really wasn\u2019t all about me. \u201cI hope your mother stays well and that God looks out for her,\u201d I said, thinking for a moment only of his situation.<\/p>\n

The customs officer gave me a long look. \u201cFrom your lips to God\u2019s ear,\u201d he said as he stamped my passport and sent me on my way.<\/p>\n

I got back to the U.S., back to my family, quarantining together. It was still hard to believe that I\u2019d made it. And I knew I never would have without many angels clearing my path along the way.<\/p>\n

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