Hillary Burns and I. She treated me like gold but I was too young to understand the word commitment.
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Audrey Anderson taught me the meaning of flight and made me read Jonathan Livingston Seagal till I understood it. 20 years later I named my son after that bird and the book is the philosophy of my life.
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This is the card all my friends that hung out in town gave me for my birthday before I left for California
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Linda Paolillo is the one everyone I knew made sure they did what they could to make sure I stayed away from only because of age.
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The Eltingville train station.
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The town of Eltingville. They called me the mayor of eltingville. I worked at milk n'things, the car wash, burger king, the arcade the realtor, and generally was there 18/7...
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The Staten Island to Brooklyn Verrezanno Narrows Bridge. This was the last thing I saw as I turned back to look while in the car going to Kennedy airport to leave to California.
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My favorite "thing" is a painting called Serenity by an artist named Gregg. This very well complimented the Jonathan Livingston Seagul thing of my Life.
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This was my parents first house in Sun Valley, CA. It was in the hills overlooking the San Fernando Valley.
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This was the backyard and the view which was spetacular. The Burbank airport is just below and we would watch the planes take off and land...
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A letter from Linda to my first home in CA.
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Joe LaRocka and Billy Vogel. Joey and I hung out all the time in SI. Billy and him came to vist me the first summer I was in California.
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Apon moving to CA, the first day I met Candy. She lived across the street.
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This was Candy's brother Ron who typified what the california party scene was all about...
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This was my friend Todd. We worked together. He taught me that the word DUDE was nothing to fight over... Check out a smaller version of the Serenity painting on the wall.
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Hillary Burns and her friend wers the first girls from SI to come vist and comfort me while trying to adjust to CA. This was a big deal because 500 friends told me they all wanted to visit CA( not necessirarly vist me, just California) ...but few came.
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A letter from Claudette Kove to our house in Brentwood. No, OJ Simpson was not my neighbor but the Hulk was...
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This was Becky. She showed me that California was a great place to live with a lot of cool things to do and see.
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This is the DeSimone family just after we moved to CA.
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Trying to move back to NYC, got an apartment but did not last... back to CA.
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A letter from Honor. She has the most beautifull hand writing wou will ever see... I moved out of Santa Monica and back to Burbank with the family.
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Laura Sneadon. This picture was taken at the beach in New Jersey. Laura could have broken my heart, but I still talk with her till this day. Laura came to CA to visit my sister and our family and when she got home, decided to marry Steve. Lucky guy...
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This is Diane Novia and her mom. I am dressed as Santa Clause. Yep, for the past 30 years I dress up as Santa. This was while on one of my 3 excursions trying to move back to NYC after moving to CA. I no longer need a pillow in my santa suit...
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This is me and Bonnie Beck. Hi Bonnie... Lot's of nice things to say about Bonnie that would get me in trouble with Honor. Bonnie was the last girlfriend for me before I dated Honor.
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I met Honor in 1978 at Santa Minica College. Our first class together was child development. Talk about stalking, I asked her out, no exageration, 25 weeks in a row before she said yes...
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Honor and I at Santa Monica College.
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Honor and I, Peggy and Youseff were all college buddies.
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Martha, Honor, Peggy. Our college friends.
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My fur coat Christmas gifts to Honor and Patricia
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Graduating Santa Monica College, Thanks mom and dad.
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After college it off to Lackland Air Force base for basic training...
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Honor and I at our favorite restraunt at the time, Captain Kidds seafood in Redondo Beach, CA
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Me, right out of the USAF
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Me at lackland Air Force Base the day after basic training and on my way home. Who was that girl?
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My Honorable Discharge from the USAF
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Beatle Bailey, Blondie and Brenda Starr were my favorite Sunday comics...
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Honor, Her brother Ernie shortly after I got back from serving in the Air Force.
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My first painting I did celebrating my love for Honor. Painted in 1979.
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Prior to my first real career job, I worked as a college student temp. Everyday or every week I had a different part time assignment. I worked for at least 100 different companies by the time I was 22. After the US Air Force, I got another part time job as a merchandiser for a food broker. I did this for 10 years and several job titles. Once a year the big boss, Dean Billings, would send the top sales guy to the Palm restraunt in Beverly Hills. (a big deal in those days for celeberties). The Winner would also get $500, just to the tip the waiter. Honor sure looked forward to that each year.
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This was the guy who hired me, my boss Michael Sachs. He was such a great man. He loved and hated me because i won every single sales contest the company had for 5 years in a row without wearing a tie! And we had a contest every single week. Mike taught me that a salesman sells it and a whore gives it away...
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As a sales rep for Ross Billings Food Broker, I won every contest. here is one of many prizes of dinner Honor and I went to.
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This is my wife again. At the time, my girlfriend. 30 years later and we still love each other like it was the first month of dating. Every day I ask her if shes ok and 5 times a day I tell her I love her.
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Greg Mullen and I. Greg was one of my first good friends in CA. He married my sister.
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After the Air force, I moved to Santa Monica. The place is as beautiful as its name sounds. I lived in an apartment with a roommate Link who was a music teacher who gave lessons to Peter Tork of the Monkees. My neighbors were Gary & Ileen Rivera who I see once in a while and I wish we got together more often...
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Me with a couple cheer leaders while working on the movie North Dallas Forty with James Cann. While going to school, I worked on over 1000 movies and TV shows. I still have many of the pay stubbs showing the name of each show.
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Me with an oversized stuffed bear while working on the movie The Incredible Shrinking Woman with Lily Tomlin.
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