Condolences on your loss - but "almost all of a sudden" is not a bad way to go. doesn't help you miss her any the less. - the story you told was lovely - and what a sweet photo with the kitten.
I'd guess the dancer was Gene Kelly... Thanks for sharing that story with us while you are being sad. ann Gianfranco Irlanda wrote: >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.
