Wednesday, February 05, 2014
I had many Italian-American friends in high school. The demographics of the small town insured it, if you wanted friends. Most - not all - were third generation, grandsons of immigrants.
When I dropped by large family backyard cookouts of these friends, I'd be introduced to about two dozen "cousins" ranging in age from infant to near-geezer. But among these cousins would usually befour or five or six very pretty but bored teenage girls, delighted to meet someone outside the family, even a rather ordinary-looking guy like myself.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
When I dropped by large family backyard cookouts of these friends, I'd be introduced to about two dozen "cousins" ranging in age from infant to near-geezer. But among these cousins would usually befour or five or six very pretty but bored teenage girls, delighted to meet someone outside the family, even a rather ordinary-looking guy like myself.
