Italian nurse proposes with a little help from his COVID-19 gown | Inquirer News

Italian nurse proposes with a little help from his COVID-19 gown

/ 12:40 PM January 03, 2021

ROME — In Italy, it seems, true love will always find a way — even in the time of coronavirus.

A Facebook post has gone viral after a male nurse in a southern hospital proposed to his girlfriend with the big question scrawled on the back of his head-to-toe protective clothing.

In the post, which had received over 500 “likes” by Saturday, Giuseppe Pungente shared a photo of himself in a corridor of the respiratory ward of the Ostuni hospital in Puglia, his back turned to the camera.

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“Carmeli, do you want to marry me?” was the message written on the back of Pungente’s gown, with a “Yes” and “No” underneath.

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In his New Year’s post, Pungente wrote that, as a nurse “in the front line in the fight against the virus” who had recovered himself from Covid-19, “I’ve developed the idea that real life is made of small and simple things….”

“Such as close friends, birth family and the one of the future, together with you, Carmen Pinto.”

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The sixteenth message below his photograph was Pinto responding “YESSSSSSSSS” followed by seven heart emojis.

Pungente contracted Covid-19 at the start of the pandemic in March, and in recent days was vaccinated, La Repubblica daily reported.

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