In the summer of 2019, author Rebecca Serle and her mother went on a trip to Italy, visiting Rome and the idyllic town of Positano on the Amalfi Coast. It was a glorious vacation, made more special for the fact that Serle’s mother had spent an incredible summer there when she was 20. She had fallen in love with a man named Remo in Rome; they had met at the Trevi fountain. 

In 2019, mother and daughter were able to find Remo on Facebook — and they had a happy reunion (where else?) at the Trevi fountain. (“My mother is very happily married to my father, I just want to make that clear!” Serle says with a laugh.)