25 April: Lille, the partisan relay in the square in Cagliari

(ANSA) – CAGLIARI, APRIL 25 – Among the 10 thousand in the streets today in Cagliari for April 25 there was also Lilla, born Sonia Aquilotti, 88 years old in a few days, a partisan relay when she was 7. She was still living at the time in the Marche with her family but already as a child she had been called to support the Resistance. ‘For me it was a game, I had a pink apron with a big hem and I had the commitment to go and get a quarter of milk from a farm that belonged to my sister who was not yet 5 years old – she says holding a large flag in her hand with the rainbow of peace – When I arrived in the farmyard of this farm, on a piece of road that was visible from both sides, I had two choices in front of me: if at the beginning I ran it meant that there was a danger and the partisans did not arrive; if, however, I walked slowly then they slowly arrived and took a piece of paper. At that time no one called me Sonia, I heard this name for the first time when I grew up – he continues – to everyone I was “Lilla” (ANSA).