TO YOU Guido

Hello great Guido,

Your friends write to you:  

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I remember when you talked to us about your passions, when you insisted on teaching your sport to people who believed they could swim, when you brought 10 grapes but you always wanted to share them with us. The truth is that we always go in a hurry and live in a distracted world, your world was different and for this reason those who know you now cry to you, thanks Guido for letting us enter your world, we will miss you.

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You went away like this, leaving us astonished and dismayed.

I will miss my "bodyguard", and with me you will miss the many members, who have now become friends, who have had the opportunity over the years to appreciate your didactic, dialectical and human qualities.

You were a beautiful soul, perhaps too beautiful for this world.

I am comforted by the thought that whatever place you are now is definitely better than the one you left.

Hi Guido, rest in peace

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You left us in such a silent way but it is perhaps the way that most resembled you. You were discreet and taciturn, but if you started talking it was hard to get you to stop :)

I hope that even where you are now you will be able to listen to the good music that you shared with us at the pool in the evening… Have a good trip, Guido!

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We met by the pool. You immediately took a liking to us and from that moment on you started to train with great commitment and constancy even though we did free swimming and you were not required to do so. From that moment on, a friendship was born between us that I will never be able to forget. You followed us with passion, even taking us to win competitions against guys who were part of categories far superior to ours. The great passion you put into what you did, combined with our commitment, led us to get on that podium despite the predictions that we were defeated. 🏆🥇🥈🥉

You gave us your passion for swimming and you kept us company during every workout with the big laughs you made us do every time. I remember you as a genuine person, always with a smile on your face, and with an incredible sense of humor. Every day you had a new story to tell about past and present life episodes, and we listened to you every time with great pleasure and interest. My favorite stories were the countless adventures lived at the Méditerranée club!  I just couldn't get enough of those thrilling stories!

But unfortunately fate has called you too soon and we have to make up for it. With your disappearance we have lost an instructor and a great friend. The wound of your disappearance still burns, and so it will forever be. You have left a void in all of us that will be difficult to fill. You have been a beautiful person and it was a great pleasure to have you by your side. I hope to see you again someday, somewhere, to be able to continue our teasing, our double meanings, and our constant teasing each other. And then ... you still have to finish telling me about that year in which you won the points race of the Méditerranée club! ahahaha

A huge hello great Guido. The Angels are waiting for you. Now you have to teach them to swim in the sky too. Surely, at least there, you will not find any angel with the worst swim of mine and above all none of them will ever use the sneaky trick of the last lap like myself! ahahaha

I only have good memories with you great Guido. We will miss you forever my friend!

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Dear Guido,

you left us so quickly and without warning and that's why we're a little pissed off at you!

And now? No more conversations about mysterious plots, about religious symbolisms, about your beloved aliens. No more designs of fantastic sailing boats. Nothing more than silence.

There remains only the hope, perhaps one day, to meet again, to continue all those speeches that have remained pending.

While waiting we will always carry you in our heart.

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Guido was an institution for me. I met him every night that I went to the pool. It was the first one I found in the pool at the beginning of the season before the courses resumed and the last one I greeted before the summer closure. It was a reassuring presence. Even though he apparently didn't teach courses, he was everyone's teacher, he never spared precious advice by the pool. In the changing rooms we exchanged jokes and anecdotes and I remember him humming some songs of his unforgettable metal rock soundtrack that often accompanied the end of training.

We will miss you, dear Guido

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Guido you have been and always will be for me the best instructor I've ever had and a great friend.

Do you remember? In the evening at the pool We started with the warm-up in the gym, interspersed with your “sui generis” stories and anecdotes that always made us laugh.

Instead, once you got into the pool you became a more demanding but always ironic coach, with a prompt, shrewd and at the same time constructive joke.

How many evenings have we spent together, from taking you home after training, to dinners and birthdays.

I haven't been back to the pool yet, but I already know it will never be the same again ...

So Guì what else to say; I hope that where you went you continue to teach swimming, perhaps to the "moonlit angels" as you called them, because it is your great passion and your true miracle is having transmitted it to us. 

Hello. We miss you

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I will miss talking about talking and planes with you. Hello Guidone

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Maybe you knew me by sight, probably not my name, but I knew yours.  In this life you cannot go away alone, everyone has the right to be remembered. In your own way you have been part of something big and beautiful, you have been part of this pool that is a bit like a big family. A family that embraces everyone and forgets no one. Hi Guido.

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I started swimming as a child and I continued for many years, now I have not swimming for a long time but I have a beautiful memory of those years and of this sport, I can not help associating Guido with swimming, in my memory the two things go together, if I think of swimming, I also think of him. As a child he was my instructor and in addition to being an instructor he was a friend, I found that friend years later at Aurelia Nuoto. I will never forget those long evenings in the gym chatting, hello Guido I love you.

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I have known you for more than 10 years and every day I saw the passion you put into your work. You will miss Aurelia so much and we all miss you so much

Hi Guido

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Hi Guido,

our friendship was born a little by chance: I still remember that for several days I called you "Vito" and you called me "Luca". Then came the summer of 2018, I was still swimming for a short time and for this reason you decide to continue free swimming at least for July. It was there when we got to know each other the most, (and we finally understood what we really called each other!) Although I minded my own business not being the most extroverted person, you looked at me in the tub, seeing me clumsy and not very precise in my movements, you wanted to help me, and so you followed me throughout the summer month.

I immediately appreciated your contacting me without filters, in short, my swimming had nothing that was fine, but this gave me determination and desire to improve myself and show you that I could do it, and so, thanks to your wanting to help others unconditionally and wanting to share your knowledge as only you know how to do, I discovered the love for swimming:  yes, thanks to you.

And from there, little by little, we loved each other more and more: when I came to swim I was always happy to see you; you always had some interesting, unusual story or news to tell:  how swimming has changed over the years or the books you read (I still remember the one on the mysteries of Egypt!). I will miss you Guido, I will miss hearing your music, purely rock, that you put on in the evening asking me regularly if I knew it (and most of the times I did); you were a special person and I will always cherish the memory of you. Have a good trip.

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In the pool at a brisk pace, swimsuit and t-shirt, hair that rebels against the passing of time and the stories about your past as a sprinter, the workouts thrown down on the sheets for your boys in the evening and the music you put on even while in the water still there were the courses.

A constant presence that, making mistakes, we tend to take for granted and that when you are absent you cannot help but suffer.

Hi Guido.

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We grow up listening to fairy tales and then discover that we live in a jungle that follows a single rule, there is no room to stop or to get distracted, the only salvation is love, the love of those who saw you born and love of those who want to walk next to you. Hi Guido

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