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         <description><![CDATA[Few tragedies in this or any community have generated a greater response to show the power of the human spirit than the one we memorialize here today. I personally regret not being able to attend as I will still be on assignment in Puerto Rico. However, whoever reads these words will know that my soul joins with all others who want to find a way to celebrate with a sense of joy found, in the memory of Pia, that we have found a way to perpetuate her infectious spirit and will to succeed. 
As...]]></description>
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         <title>Dave Jameson</title>
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I recall vividly my first image of Pia - smiling, happy and beautiful when she, Enrico and little Claudio arrived at Willard airport in Champaign twenty years ago. That image remains crystal clear in my mind today and yet it shows the very same Pia I saw so recently - a Pia who, in some magical way, never aged during the intervening years. 
I realize now that Pia's magic - Pia's perpetual youth and beauty arose from the way she lived her life - the fact that everyday for her was a...]]></description>
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         <title>Joshua Fishkin</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Dear Enrico, 
When you said "To be in Pia's presence was to be happy", you spoke truly. She possessed the rare quality of being able to light up a room with her presence. Her warmth, beauty, and high intelligence made it a pleasure for everyone to be with her. One of my favorite memories is of a card game I once played with Pia, Valentina, and Beniamino at a party at your house. When Pia's turn came, she asked me to pass her an ace, but mispronounced it as "ass". I laughed at this mistake,...]]></description>
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         <title>Fabio Gratton: The Principles of Pia Physics</title>
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It’s hardly been a month since the day my dad called me and told me my mom had been murdered. Since the day, every moment, awake or sleeping, has been filled with her presence. She was the single-most powerful inspiration of my life. 
Now it’s ironic that I am addressing a room full of students, most of whom study chemistry or physics. I say it’s ironic because many of you could probably reduce my mom’s existence to a series of formulas. Chemical reactions. Rules which govern the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 1995 18:02:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Enrico Gratton: Pia, Do You Remember</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Dear Pia, my love: 
I had a very special relationship with you, a relationship in which I had the strongest desire to see you, to feel the touch of your hand, to enjoy your presence during every minute of my life. I felt the need for your physical presence everywhere I went, at home, at parties, when we were alone and when we were with others. Do you remember when I returned from my trips, we had to stop on the way home to kiss each other? We could not wait to have our special contact! 
Do you...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 1995 18:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title>Claudio Gratton</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Pia’s death has moved me to think hard about my life, her life and what she gave to me to make me the person I am today. After all this is a memorial to Pia -- we are all here to remember who she was and to share our thoughts, stories and reflect on how she has touched each of our lives. The many talks in our family over the last month have made it clear to me that we can each write a book on Pia and what she means to us. I want to share with you what I think is one of the most important facets...]]></description>
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         <title>Mark Sandrock: Pia's Secret</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[I will never forget the day in July of 1988, when a petite, attractive woman stood at my door here in Noyes Lab and told me she had heard we were looking for a VAX programmer. She looked like no computer programmer I had ever met, but she turned out to be one of the best, and it wasn't long before we became close co-workers and the best of good friends. That was Pia. 
To know Pia was to love her. This is no trite saying, but rather, in Pia's case it resonates with truth, just as she herself...]]></description>
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         <title>Zan Schulten: Good Deeds</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[For Catholics in Europe, the eve of December 6th has a special meaning. It is the time that Saint Nikolaus and his companion Squire Ruprecht visit every home with their book of merits. On the right side are written a person's good deeds--and St. Nikolaus rewards those good acts with praise and gifts of candy and small presents. On the left side are written a person's bad deeds--and Squire Ruprecht rewards those bad acts with a frown and a warning to do better next year.
For Pia Gratton we see...]]></description>
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         <title>Claudio Gratton: What My Mother Gave to Me</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Pia’s death has moved me to think hard about my life, her life and what she gave to me to make me the person I am today. After all this is a memorial to Pia -- we are all here to remember who she was and to share our thoughts, stories and reflect on how she has touched each of our lives. The many talks in our family over the last month have made it clear to me that we can each write a book on Pia and what she means to us. I want to share with you what I think is one of the most important facets...]]></description>
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