Amalia's Story, Chapter Sixty
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #13:
"I think if you wanted a babysitter, you should have married Mary Poppins."
-- Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman), "To Die For," 1995
"So she was married in 1947 . . . Two years after the war ended . . . "

"I bet they met at University -- "

"Then she didn't have her first son until 1956 . . . that's nine years . . . "

"Oh, that was totally normal back then."

"Especially among the Italians."

"CENTERVILLE KINDERGARTEN"

" . . . fast forward to 1964."

"Mrs. Louis Jacobucci, president of Centerville Kindergarten Association, has listed members of this year's class which opened Oct. 3 at the Community Building as follows - — "

"Oh my God, I knew that girl!"

"Patricia Jackson?"

"Attending the afternoon nursery class conducted by Mrs. Bearse and held from 1 to 3 p.m. Mondays Wednesdays and Thursdays are -- "

"Lily Giambarba?"

"And the very last name on the list -- "

"That is -- "

"Who?"

"Oh, that's one of her sons."

"Son Number Two."

"Interested parents may cont -- "

"Move on."

= Louis Jacobucci
"Destruction ...