Family, lost and found

17Feb12

You might have noticed at this point that my family was more of the “unhappy in its own way” kind. Helmed by parents whose own parents had never shown them much affection, which meant they never learned how dispense it themselves, my family was an archipelago of six individuals with few bonds. We were four [...]

Filed under: 2000s, Childhood, Germany, Third Reich, World War II, Youth   |  Closed
Tags: Brighton Beach, family, friendship, isolation, loss, mortality, sadness, sisters, unhappiness

The saddest song in the world

10Jan12

When I was still living in London, in a blitzed out, wistful little corner of Limehouse, I had an upstairs neighbor from Colombia. He was studying the shoemaking business at Cordwainers College so that he’d be able to support his father who owned a shoe factory. Most days he would be fairly quiet but occasionally [...]

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Tags: 1990s, beauty, Cheo Marquetti, death, Henry Fiol, London, mortality, Oriente, Orlando Fiol, sadness, son montuno