Thought this was a cute little story to start an fucking early Monday morning. Heard it on the CBC and then this is from iol

Rome - A retired Italian teacher has found a new home after offering after-school help for a family with children in exchange for some human warmth and affection, a newspaper reported in Rome on Thursday.

Eighty-year-old Giorgio Angelozzi, a former teacher of Latin and Greek who was widowed in 1992, had taken out an advert offering to play the "grandpa au pair", as well as contribute €500 per month to the family budget, the Corriere della Sera reported.

The lucky couple, Elio and Marlena Riva from Bergamo in northern Italy, were among hundreds of people who responded to the advert.

Their two children Mateush, 18, and Dagmara, 16, made the first contact with their new grandpa, tracking down his telephone number on the Internet and sending him a family snapshot.

Angelozzi told the paper he was delighted to have found a family with children of high-school age, and was looking forward to "talking about Kant and Montesquieu" with young people again.

In the advert, he had explained that he was not short of money - thanks to a pension of €1 480 per month - but had lost his wife suddenly and found the loneliness unbearable after a lifetime in the classroom. - Sapa-AFP