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The best part of cleaning out my late parents' home in Italy early this year was stumbling on the vestiges of my "twisted" upbringing: a huge collection of heavy metal records and horror video tapes and DVDs that I amassed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s but left behind when I moved to Asia.