'Humility! I got it!' Mario's life was the Great American Dream. Brother Mario in Garissa in 1973 [Dad visited Brother Mario a number of times in the Northern Provinces to check up on how he was spending Oxfam's money. The walls were covered with pictures of Mario and Frank Sinatra, Mario and Dean Martin, Mario and Bing Crosby, Mario and local politicians, Mario and Italian gentlemen in dressed smartly. And of course Dad drew his own conclusions about Marios suddenly finding his vocation and deciding to move to the remote Northern Province of Kenya. Dad told a story of how he was with Mario. Mario looked up after telling Dad the story of the realisation that he had a vocation and said. 'You know Tony, humility? I got it!' and smiled. This became a phrase we used in our family whenever anyone spoke too well of themselves. 'You know, Humility, I got it.' By the end of his life though, in 2003, it seems that Brother Mario
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