The project my paper refers to was prodded by the meeting of a civil servant who works for the city's department concerned with nomadic people (i.e. Gypsies) in the industrial city where we both live. The words with which he described the plight of the campsites' residents and especially of mothers struck me to the point to make me want to understand how he had been able to gain such knowledge. So even though there hadn't yet been any kind of conversation between us, one could say that an interaction had already started. Arrangements were made to collect the story of his professional life and how it is intertwined with his personal life, since he's married to a Roma woman. Not unlike the paper I plan to give in network 19, this one also deals with "cultural intersections" within one person, and how the latter's life choices and occurrences seem to have a crucial role for the professional persona. On the other hand, notwithstanding the fact that he works in the area where he is likely to meet his wife's relatives (and therefore his own relatives by marriage), G.'s story assigns a considerable weight to the professional side in his life and in the construction of his identity as a Kaggió (non Gypsy man). As a matter of fact, the professional side of his life weighted heavily on the story collecting as well, since I had initially tried to negotiate collecting G.'s story during some of his working time but had to change plans as my objective clashed with the department rules and expectations. First of all the presentation of G.'s story is aimed at discussing the different cultural and life strands that make it unique and - at the same time - a successful intercultural "experiment". While I am not at all comfortable with the now popular notions of cultural "métissage" or cultural "hybridization" I nevertheless recognize the need for a definition of cultural identity capable of expressing the richness and diversity of a person's life experience and construction. G.'s story indicates some of the ways in which cultural interaction (be it on the job or at home) results in deep understanding and knowledge of the different participants in the encounter. Secondly, my presentation will analytically take into account the interactional context in which the task of collecting the story took place, and it will advance that the conversation was an instance of an intercultural exchange - this time between the researcher's assumptions and expectations and G's manifold narrative.