Christin asked...
Can you tell us about any stories or interactions between your parents that you remember that would help us get to know them?
Can you tell us any stories or interactions between your parents that you remember that would help us get to know them? So anything that comes to mind on that question Well, only what I mentioned before when we were I didn't realize it until I was an adult that when we had dinners We only spoke to my father in English and to my mother only an Italian because my father Never spoke Italian except when the paisanas came and my mother somehow did not embrace the English language enough to learn it and you know fluently she spoke really spoke broken English and What was behind your father preferring English and your mother sticking with Italian? Well, I think my father came as a boy and He wanted to become and to be an American and your mother came when she was 23 And she cried a lot when She cried so much that they couldn't leave for Italy because if you had something wrong with your eyes You were not allowed in the oh, so they thought maybe something was Instead of leaving from Italy my father then went to France So they left from the half so I always thought they came to from Ellis Island, but they did not and Just remember that and you know part of this question is to get to know your Your parents and their their style of being a parent, so maybe starting with your father what You know, what was he like as a parent? How did he show affection or? I'll tell you that as he came as a boy He was an extremely bright man, but he never had the opportunity For a formal education But he was very bright and I think we have a picture right What I mean you can if you want while you're talking about him. Yes And of course family was everything he worked very hard. I remember we he would come home with the It was called the new evening news in his pocket. So as soon as he came in the door we all ran Got the newspaper. I would take let's say the comics Tony would take the sports He didn't care as long as at the end. It was all he got it back together so that he could read it