Growing up in Italy, Luciano Parente and his siblings were immersed in the art their sculptor father created. When Luciano was a young man, his father came to the United States to visit one of his older children who had moved here. “He fell in love with this country,” says Luciano, “and he wanted the rest of us to move here, too.”
After returning to Rome, Luciano’s father sold some of his artwork and divided the money among his kids so they would have funds to move to America and start new lives and careers. Luciano’s new career started in Connecticut when he realized, after arriving, that no one was selling Italian food products. He used the money from his father to open an Italian store in Torrington, Conn., which he ran for 10 years.
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