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JERSEY SHORE
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FLORIDA GOLD COAST
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Introduction
Continued:
I read and re-read these messages several times letting this information sink
into my brain. In my 63 years it
has been hard to shock me, but these messages gave me quite a jolt.
I had been searching for my mother ever since the time I moved from the
foster home where my sister Phyllis and I were placed when I was one and she was
two years old, and went to live with my father and his new wife.
My father, his family and the foster family we lived with always told us
that my mother and father divorced at that time and that my father had been
awarded custody of Phyllis and I, and that my mother Concetta Chillemi had died. I
always had my suspicions that this wasn’t true since I remembered a women
coming to see us who was supposed to be our "Aunt Connie". After a few
visits she stopped coming to see us.
I
saved the two messages in my personal folder and then printed them out on my
Lexmark Z11 inkjet. Again I re-read both of them and I reached for my desk phone
while checking the time on my computer taskbar, it was 2:30 eastern time here in
Delaware and that would make it either 10:30 or 11:30 AM in Colorado.
I dialed 1-719-___-____ and waited for it to start to ring.
It rang once and the operator’s message stated;
“The number you dialed can not be
reached on this phone “. I
cursed under my breath and replaced the receiver on its cradle; I had forgotten
to have a long-distance carrier assigned when I moved my office from my son’s
shop in Bear, Delaware to my home/office/bedroom at the house.
It was only yesterday that I had called IDT after receiving a letter
stating that their service, that I had requested at least ten days prior had not
yet been activated and that the fault was with my local phone company.
I got irritated and told them to cancel it and called the local phone
company who stated that their records showed my number was being carried by MCI.
After calling MCI I was told that my service should be activated in a
couple of days. I again cursed
under my breath and was tempted to dial on my son’s fiancé’s line.
But thought betters of it and waited until she got home to get her
approval. Amy was due home anytime now from her day job.
My stomach was getting a nervous twitch from the tension and anticipation
that was going through me. Could
this news be true, my son had never mentioned any niece of mine trying to search for me.
I had only reunited with him after twenty-three years, since just before
the birth of my youngest grandchild Alexus.
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FAMILY
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