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Kiran moves through Venice like someone who remembers every breath he’s taken along its alleys and acquas alta floods. By day, he lectures tourists about the alchemy of vermouth ratios and bitters under striped awnings near Rialto Bridge—but not because he needs money. He does it because he loves the moment when someone tastes an old recipe and their face collapses into childhood recognition. He calls these moments 'memory breaches,' and collects them more than coins.At midnight, he climbs ladders onto rooftop gardens where cats gather like council elders, leaving bowls of tuna-infused broth beside terracotta pots. It started as tribute to an old neighbor who fed them; now it's ritual—an offering to things unseen, unclaimed, like love.His sexuality lives in thresholds: steam fogging train windows during winter returns when hands drift too close; quiet challenges exchanged over spritz garnished with rosemary stems he shaped into arrows behind the bar’s blindside mirror; slow dances in the abandoned palazzo ballroom where the parquet groans beneath two people who know they might leave before dawn.Kiran believes romance isn’t grand gestures—it’s showing someone exactly which memory your body remembers when they touch you behind the ear. He cooks late-night meals that taste like Sicilian summers he never lived but dreamed into being after listening too long to an old woman's story at Caffè Florian—he simmers tomatoes with oregano smoked on driftwood just so, whispers blessings into risotto because someone once told him love enters food if invited.