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Carlo Buti – from the Family archive
Carlo Buti – 11/14/02 – 11/16/63 Several years ago I received an email from my brother-in-law, who is several years older than me. “Remember tomorrow is Carlo Buti’s birthday! Proper celebrations should be made!” My reply was “How the hell do you know that?”. … Continue reading
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Sons – Part 4 of 5 – A Life Story of Choice
The doctors spoke to them about a “degenerative disorder of the nervous system” and how infants with the disease seem perfectly normal at birth. The test for a definitive diagnosis could only be done at Albert Einstein Hospital in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970s, choice, daughters, disability, DPT vaccines, family, krabbe's, loss, love, North Carolina, seizures, tragedy, triumph
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Sons – Part 3 of 5 – A Life Story of Choice
Richmondtown Soon after finalizing arrangements to bury Daniel he drove to her parent’s home on Staten Island where she could be with her mother and sister. He sensed it would be good for her to be with women. They … Continue reading
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Tagged care giver, family, gloiboid cell leukodystrophy, having another, Krabbe's disease, loss of child, memoir, pregnancy, profound disability, seizures
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Sons – Part 2 of 5- A Life Story of Choice
And so they tell their family and friends; there is joy for them and good wishes. Those with screaming brats welcome the soon to be members of their perpetually exhausted club. Her parents look forward to another grandchild; her … Continue reading
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Tagged 1973, birth, Daniel Jason, family, first child, new jersey, pregnancy, tragedy, true story
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The 45 Year Old House Plant
The Plant and the Cat. She’s gone. It’s still here . So it’s New Year’s Day 1977 and my wife of 14 years and I are waiting. We are living in our new home on Wandering Way in southeast Charlotte, … Continue reading
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The Princess and the Nerd – from the Archive for Prom Season
The Princess and the Nerd – June 1, 1963 – At the Ft. Hamilton High School Prom. Did you ever think about how you got to where you are? Everyone does at one time or another. How did I … Continue reading
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Tagged crossroads of life, fate, ft hamilton high, May 1963, Senior Prom
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In Memoriam
JoAnn Marie-Louise Romanelli Scarangello 6/3/1945 – 4/19/2004 Her 1963 high school graduation photo. She was 17. I was 20. We married over the frantic objection of our parents before the year was out. . I spied her in a coffee … Continue reading
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You Know You’re Getting Old When….
Written a decade ago as I turned 70 Don’t you just love it when something occurs in your life and it suddenly dawns on you – I’m getting old. Of course we all know we are getting older but there … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, back ache, changing a flat, flat tire, getting old, Goddess of Aging, laughs, loss of abilities, realization that your old, sweat
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For My Mom – A Re-Post for Mother’s Day
Mom, me with the glasses and my two brothers. The baby is already gone My mother Mary would have been 97 years old last January. She is gone longer than she was here – she was gone 54 years on April … Continue reading
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A Boy’s Blush – From the Archives
My street – 13th Avenue at 66th street Brooklyn in the late 1940s I lived in the buildings on the extreme left with the triangular roof lines above the awnings. The heat baked the concrete streets of Brooklyn that Summer … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950s, biography, Charlie the Sailor, Cherry Pink, Connie, Dodgers, Elvis, first crush, growing up, music, older woman, radio man, rock and roll, story, sweet Connie, Tennessee Waltz. innocence
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