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If you see Gaetano Mortillaro (LAW’21) at Commencement this weekend, you might go out of your way to congratulate him. He’s about four feet tall, so he’ll be easy to pick out in a socially distanced sea of red caps and gowns, even if you aren’t familiar with his wry smile.
But you won’t be able to see everything he has overcome to get there.
From poor son of a Gloucester lobsterman to law school graduate is a story that any University would be proud to tell, but the obstacles Mortillaro has surmounted are the stuff of Shakespeare with the last act set during a pandemic, too.