The Amendola family, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, are winding up a nine-day vacation in Mount Airy, and they’re already planning the next one, which will be their eighth.
Fernando Amendola is music director for Disney South America, and he can go pretty much anywhere he wishes, and where he wishes to go is Mount Airy.
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