only until I was seven did I live with just my parents and brothers and sisters. Before then it was with my aunt and her family. Before then there were three generations of Italians living in a house on Carroll Street.
until maybe my early twenties many still lived on Staten island and we got together so often and it was so great.
now I am the only sibling still on Staten island. Mom is 10 minutes away. My sisters are only 40 minutes away in New Jersey and they see her once a week but it is not like the old days.
I will never have as much fun as I did when everybody lived together or very near each other
The footprint in our families hometown is all but gone now with just a sister and her husband remaining there..... married at 18, no children, they built their own house and never moved, both in their 70’s now and still in the house they built although they’ve remodeled a few times.
The footprint in our families hometown is all but gone now with just a sister and her husband remaining there..... married at 18, no children, they built their own house and never moved, both in their 70’s now and still in the house they built although they’ve remodeled a few times.