I was born and raised in Rhode Island. My mother, an immigrant from Italy, came to the U.S. when she was 21, fell in love and married my father on June 27, 1970. They had my brother on June 27, 1971, followed by my birth eleven months later on May 23, 1972, and then my father passed away a little over a year later, on June 27, 1973. My mother went on to remarry, and my new father lovingly raised us as his own. My parents later had my two younger sisters, who will forever be my best friends!
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