Amalia's Story, Chapter Sixty-Five
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #18:
"I don't know how to tell this part of the story."
"Well, why don't you just spit it out, then I will deny that it ever happened?"
"Yes, that is definitely the best course of action."
“You're deluded."
"My mother told an impartial third party that her son had a rough childhood."
"You lie."
"I have a sound file of the third party describing the conversation in detail."
"You are fantasizing."
"So how did this alleged conversation that never happened affect my mother? It's hard to say. And, once again, under what circumstances would such a conversation ever occur?"
"You are manipulative."
"Well. She had literally just met this impartial third party, and apparently she kind of just blurted it out."
"Sounds like someone is being manipulated."
"What?"
"If she ever even made made that statement to begin with, which we have already established never happened, probably, her son brought it upon himself. He exaggerates."
"And, in any case, it is time to ...
Amalia's Story, Chapter Sixty-Four
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #17:
"50th Anniversary Of MSPCC June 16 At New Seabury"
"Amalia's Story . . . "
" . . . Louis Jacobucci, district executive of -- "
"The Agency, The Comedy Club, the Cub Scouts, the Unitarian Church . . . "
"Oh look, they went camping!"
"PERSONALS . . . . Barnstable Patriot, September 02, 1965 . . . "
"Mr. and Mrs. Louis Jacobucci and sons Mark and Andrew have returned to their Brenzer Lane home from a week's camping at White Lake State Park in Ossipee, N.H."
"Social Concerns Committee . . . November 25, 1965 -- "
"A public meeting to explain the details of the government Medicare program -- "
"Louis Jacobucci, Chairman, Bruce K. Jerauld -- "
"Oh, I knew a Fred Jerauld!"
"This is supposed to be Amalia's Story, and all we're hearing about is her husband's communi -- "
"Never mind. Hold on . . . Social Reform . . . CONGRATULATIONS!"
'What?"
"November 18, 1965 . . . '
"To — Louis Jacobucci . . . MSPCC district executive, who -- "
"In any case, it's time to forget the past and ...
"What?!"
"I didn't say anything."
"How can you say such a thing?"
"I'm not going through this again."
"What do you mean?"
"All this -- denial. I'm done. I'm just going to say exactly what happened as I remember it."
"It never happened!"
"The reason I know it happened is that I renember it. I was eight years old. My brother was twelve years old. I was able to recover the date because I remember at some point in the week preceding the event, our father for some reason had told us, I'm going to be speaking at the Unitarian Church this Sunday at 11:00. It did not seem weird to me at the time, because he was always out of the house anyway. Plus all he used to when he was home was harangue me, so good."
"You lie."
"In fact, I remember thinking, it made sense that he would get something going on Sundays, because that was the only time he was ever even around anymore. Weekdays he was working, of course, and weeknights he was always at one of his many, many important community activities."
"You are delusional."
"Then, I found this article, and it all ...
