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Giovanni Cerro, a St. Pete resident who battled alcohol addiction for 10 years found his niche writing poetry on-demand for people who approach him with a subject that is important to them. (Skyla Luckey | Patch )
ST. PETERSBURG, FL — The first time poet Giovanni Cerro, 34, saw his grandfather cry was when the family patriarch read a poem Cerro wrote for his grandfather's birthday.
Cerro was 9 years old at the time. "I never saw him cry, but when I read him that poem, he cried," Cerro said in a Patch interview. "That really made an imprint on me. I was like, 'This feels good.'"