
She threw three coins in the Trevi Fountain and immediately met the man she would marry
American Catherine Tondelli won a trip to Rome, Italy in the summer of 1999. On her first night, she threw three coins in the city’s Trevi Fountain and came to face-to-face with her future husband, local Fausto Mezzana.
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