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Thanksgiving
Just a few lines, this time.
I am luckily enough to possess more friends than I could thank without writing another chapter in this thesis, but I still feel the need to tell some of them
‘thanks’ in a special way.
First I would like to thank Massimiliano for his constant support and discussion during these three years, and Giuseppina for being always there.
I won’t be list every member of the lab here: we spent together well more than three years and everyone of you knows that I owe something to everyone.
But here I would give a big thank in particular to Marco (my best flatmate ever), Silvia and Sarah, with whom I shared all the good and the bad these three years brought with them.
Another BIG, BIG thank I owe to Daniele, Chiara and Martina: I am in giri debt with you, boys, for the friendship and the invaluable help you gave to my work, that is also yours.
And outside of the lab I MUST say ‘thank you for being always there’ to my real family, my friends for life Zoran, Salvatore, Renato, Remo, Marcello, Albert and all the Old Guard of past renown with Rocco, Antonio, Vincenzo, Simone and Pierluigi that at the moment are doing their best to produce a new generation of guards ☺.
I am forgetting a lot of people, but I hope they will understand: I can’t see the minute I will quit writing this thesis.
And thanks to me, obviously.
Again, goodbye Enrico and Felice and Graziano, see you, some day.
