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...
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maraalexandru
- Oct 25, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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maraalexandru
- Oct 15, 2020
- 3 min
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,...
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lifeloveandbs
- Oct 9, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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lifeloveandbs
- Oct 2, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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maraalexandru
- Aug 27, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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maraalexandru
- Aug 27, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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maraalexandru
- Aug 27, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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maraalexandru
- Aug 27, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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maraalexandru
- Aug 27, 2020
- 6 min
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...
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