Antonio's family was originally from Malta and they tried to teach him about their rich cultural heritage & all about where his family came from but he was not interested in any of that.
He would constantly tell his grandparents stop living in the past & if Malta was so good why are they now living in the United States.
They try to explain to him about the poverty and the devastation after the Second World War the Island suffered and they had no choice but to emigrate as young children with their parents.
On his 18th birthday his grandmother gave him her father's old watch.
Antonio with a look of disgust on his face said what do I want with this piece of old junk and he threw it back at her that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Antonio did not know that his grandmother came from a long line of white witches who use their powers for good and occasionally teaching somebody a lesson.
That's how Antonio found himself the pregnant girlfriend of a British soldier during the Second World War on Malta.
Here is a photograph of him saluting goodbye to his man and hoping to find his way back to 2015 before the baby comes which he never did.
But he married the soldier and emigrated to United Kingdom were his great grandchildren are living to this day with a better understanding why his family had to leave.
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