Amalia's Story, Chapter Seventy-One
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
"My Father Was"
"I've come down from the upper class
To mend your rotten ways
My father was a man-of-power
Whom everyone obeyed"
(Jethro Tull, "Thick As A Brick," 1972)
- District Executive of The Cape Cod District of The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Hyannis, Massachusetts during the 1960's and 1970's.
= Author, "Casework Treatment of the Neglectful Mother," 1965
= Sage Journals
NEXT: My Mother Was!
= Louis Jacobucci
Lil Boochie World!
= Lil Boochie World was the most hideous of Downtown Boochton's “adult entertainment establishments” (massage parlors, nude live entertainments and strip clubs, erotic and adult bookstores, X-rated movie theaters, peep shows and ***-shop booths) which, by the late 1960s and 1970s, had spread across Booch Square, and made it so notoriously seedy, that it had begun to be called “The Sinkhole," which also had a reputation for crime, including prostitution, drugs and gambling.
= Activities occurred in these businesses under the guise of ‘dancing’: lap dancing, peep shows, in which dancers stripped in booths (e.g., the Humming Marmot in Mot Francisco and Burrattle) and “private” VIP rooms. (One would not expect you, dear reader, to have personal expertise in these subjects. After all, we certainly aren’t ...
It Never Happened (A Memoir In Meme Form)
= CHAPTER ONE: "TEN YEARS AGO THIS VERY DAY"
"It was pretty much exactly ten years ago this very day -- "
“ . . . It never happened."
"Yes, it did. That was the day that my brother met me for lunch at a casual dining seafood restaurant in Wareham, Massachusetts."
"You are deluded."
"The reason I remember it so well is that -- "
"You lie."
"He played one of his l favorite funny, funny jokes on me. Which was to arrange a meeting and then totally stand me up. Which was super super funny. And then he would completely deny it. The first time he ever did this was in 1979. In Harvard Square."
"You fantasize."
"And I believe that this lunch we had together was the first initial swirl, in what was to be my final -- I was circling the drain. For the last time. I was a horrible person! I was the worst type of person a person could be. Also, I was completely out of my mind. My whole entire life up to this point had been just ...
It Never Happened (A Memoir In Meme Form)
= CHAPTER ONE: "TEN YEARS AGO THIS VERY DAY"
"It was pretty much exactly ten years ago this very day -- "
“ . . . It never happened."
"Yes, it did. That was the day that my brother met me for lunch at a casual dining seafood restaurant in Wareham, Massachusetts."
"You are deluded."
"The reason I remember it so well is that -- "
"You lie."
"He played one of his l favorite funny, funny jokes on me. Which was to arrange a meeting and then totally stand me up. Which was super super funny. And then he would completely deny it. The first time he ever did this was in 1979. In Harvard Square."
"You fantasize."
"And I believe that this lunch we had together was the first initial swirl, in what was to be my final -- I was circling the drain. For the last time. I was a horrible person! I was the worst type of person a person could be. Also, I was completely out of my mind. My whole entire life up to this point had been just one long, endless series of psychotic breaks, one after the other, for f -- "
"You are ...
So It Was Pretty Much Exactly Ten Years Ago This Very Day: A Short Story
“ . . . It never happened."
"Yes, it did. That was the day that my sister met me for lunch at a casual dining seafood restaurant in Wareham, Massachusetts."
"You are deluded."
"The reason I remember it so well is that -- "
"You lie."
"She played one of her l favorite funny tricks on me. Which was to arrange a meeting and then totally stand me up. Which was super super funny. And the she would completely deny it. The first time she ever did this was in 1979. In Harvard Square."
"You fantasize."
"And I believe that this lunch we had together was the first initial swirl, in what was to be my final -- I was circling the drain. For the last time. I was a horrible person! I was the worst type of person a person could be. Also, I was completely out of my mind. My whole entire life up to this point had been just one long, endless series of psychotic breaks, one after the other, for f -- "
"You are manipulative. What is it you really want?"
"And ...
