Lonely Italian Widower Gets Adopted

A lonely pensioner who turned to Italy’s classifieds to find someone willing to “adopt” him as a grandfather headed to his new home this weekend.

Giorgio Angelozzi, 80, who has lived alone outside Rome since his wife died in 1992, put himself up for adoption last month via Italy’s main daily. The newspaper then ran a front-page story about his plight.

Inundated with offers from as far away as New Zealand, the retired schoolteacher decided to live with Elio and Marlena Riva and their two teenagers in Bergamo, northern Italy, saying he “chose the woman whose voice reminded me of my wife.”