Friday in Florence

Today, like every day before it and most likely many days after, the sun will peek over the Apennines in the East and shine its light on the denizens of Florence.

A bored soldier stands guard in front of the Duomo while Mario in his restaurant prepares his tiramisu. Lee stocks his convenience store with everything a man could ever want, and Carolina, the barista who remembers everyone's name and order, grinds coffee for a regular. Jerry was lost, is lost, and will remain lost for the entire...