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Mama (part 3)
Mama, Dad, Grandma and and my Aunt immediately focused on me. Understandable with a new baby, but not in the way it was handled - or so...
maraalexandru
Nov 1, 20203 min read
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Mama (part 2)
When Mama arrived in California she immediately searched for an apartment for her, her daughter, Lili, and her mother and aunt. With her...
maraalexandru
Oct 25, 20203 min read
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Mama (part 1)
My mother came into this world on a cold December night, exactly a week before Christmas 1924. She was born Liliana Bona in Torino,...
maraalexandru
Oct 15, 20203 min read
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My Beginning with The Beach Boys
In 1969 I was 13 and still recovering from that embarrassing exposé about my first period in Italy! I was starting to feel those...
lifeloveandbs
Oct 9, 20204 min read
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A Stolen Kiss
It was Autumn of 1968 when… Wait. Let’s go back further for a minute. I want to talk about Hollywood. Not long after Dad left his...
lifeloveandbs
Oct 2, 20203 min read
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A Rainy June Morning in L.A. (or how it all began)
All of our stories have to begin somewhere. Mine started on a rainy Tuesday morning in late spring in Los Angeles. Yes. I know. LA is...
maraalexandru
Aug 27, 20202 min read
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Big Scary Penguins & Powdered Sugar Donuts
Harness walks, a cute puppy and first-grade penguins.... Don’t get me wrong. I have some very fond childhood memories. How could I not...
maraalexandru
Aug 27, 20203 min read
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Singing America to sleep, Hollywood & BSS
It was the summer of 1963 before 2nd grade. Dad was an executive at KCET, a local public access station in Los Angeles. Little did I know...
maraalexandru
Aug 27, 20204 min read
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Growing up with the Stars
Looking back on the Summer of 1964, it was pretty darn cool. The Beatles had just arrived in the U.S. Beatlemania had hit like a...
maraalexandru
Aug 27, 20205 min read
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Paul Newman & the Sundance Kid
Dad was working on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in the summer of ‘68. He was on location in St. George, Utah and Durango, Colorado...
maraalexandru
Aug 27, 20206 min read
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