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Post card Translation help please

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Can I get help to translate this post card




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Dear Cousin

With great pleasure I received your letter. I am pleased to hear that you’re enjoying good health, along with your family. I can tell you the same for us. Here things are still going badly. A kilo of pasta costs 125 lira, a kilo of bread 100. We hope that things get back to normal soon. Dear Sebbastiana, now I am 76 years of age, and there are many things to do in the month of May. (I don’t understand what the next sentence means) --- I have to do 20 rays? to galvanize/solder? where I work, and the bad thing is it costs 20,000 lire.--- I along with my daughter and son send kisses dearly to all of you and wish you a blessed Easter.

Your dear cousin, Giacomo Messina
Give my regards to your brothers and sisters
March 26, 1950, the day of the most holy ____ man
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Thank you very much for the help
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bbivona wrote: 15 Mar 2019, 10:47 .....
Dear Sebbastiana, now I am 76 years of age, and there are many things to do in the month of May. (I don’t understand what the next sentence means) --- I have to do 20 rays? to galvanize/solder? where I work, and the bad thing is it costs 20,000 lire.---
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March 26, 1950, the day of the most holy ____ man
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Cara Sebbastiana ormai sono 76 anni di età, quindi ci ò poco da fare (= ho poco da vivere).
Nel mese di Maggio devo farmi 20 raggi (= 20 sessioni di raggi X) per causticare (= cicatrizzare) dove avevo il male, e costa 20 mila lire, pasienza(?) (= bisogna rassegnarsi).
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26-3-50 giorno del Santissimo Ecce Uomo (= Ecce Homo)
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Thank you for the help
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mmogno wrote: 18 Mar 2019, 18:36
bbivona wrote: 15 Mar 2019, 10:47 .....
Dear Sebbastiana, now I am 76 years of age, and there are many things to do in the month of May. (I don’t understand what the next sentence means) --- I have to do 20 rays? to galvanize/solder? where I work, and the bad thing is it costs 20,000 lire.---
......
March 26, 1950, the day of the most holy ____ man
@bbivona
........
Cara Sebbastiana ormai sono 76 anni di età, quindi ci ò poco da fare (= ho poco da vivere).
Nel mese di Maggio devo farmi 20 raggi (= 20 sessioni di raggi X) per causticare (= cicatrizzare) dove avevo il male, e costa 20 mila lire, pasienza(?) (= bisogna rassegnarsi).
.......
26-3-50 giorno del Santissimo Ecce Uomo (= Ecce Homo)
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo
Thanks. The "rays" really threw me. All makes sense now.
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