Hi my friends, I know I'm mostly lurking lately but I'm used to share my feelings with you, too bad this time are sad news.
My mother Carmelina passed away this evening. She was 80 and had several health problems, none of them particularly bad, but in the end was the heart that failed, almost all of a sudden. I have almost no picture of her of the last ten years, she was quite shy, and angry of not being young anymore... I just want to share a memory and this 1998 picture I took of her with my father and our first cat, Matisse, in one of our last moment of true happiness together: http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2085385712/ The memory I'd like to share is a moment of her youth, something she used to tell us (sometimes too often, when I and my brother were kids...) and to us was like a fairy tale. Immediatley after the WWII (or during its last months), in Naples there were good bands and orchestras following the Allies. My mother was young and attractive, and at a ball a US officer invited her to dance. When they started dancing all the others stopped and stood apart. They were dancing alone in the ballroom. At the end of the dance, the officer told her something like: "You look like Barbara Stanwyck..." She did understand what she heard but was too shy and almost fled away. Another officer came close and told her, in Italian I guess: "Do you know, miss? You danced with the most famous American dancer!" Who this famous dancer was was a recurring matter of debate among us when a musical of the Fifties was on TV... Ciao, Gianfranco PS: in her teens and twenties she did look like Barbara Stanwyck indeed... _ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
