T H E W O R L D, P R E - ME
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(left)
Okay, maybe it was just
the way they took pictures
back then, but -- is that a
movie star Dad or what?
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(right)
It seems clear now that
my parents at one time committed
some sort of criminal activity,
for here we see them banished to...
The Land of
EMBARRASSING
SWIMWEAR
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(left)
My parents,
Mario & Yolanda Mondelli,
in the 50s, when they were both
still able to fake a good smile.
You wanna talk about boring,
suburban lives? This is a color photo.
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MOM'S TRIBE
Check out Aunt
Fran, black dress, up front.
Woohoo! Major blond bombshell action!
Mom (Yolanda, aka "Lan") behind her,
holding, uh, Fran's kid Robert, I think.
Could be Ronald, the slightly less butch brother.
(I'm not saying he's gay - but I hear
he and a
special friend run a sandal and leathercraft
shop in SoCal. YOU do the math.
Also, their last name was "DiBona",
a hell of a last name for any gay man.)
Next to Fran, Aurora
(aka "Raw")
(where did they GET these names, out of
Wagner?)
The, uh, rather roomy one on the left there?
That's Aunt Olga (aka - you got it - "O"),
and a sweeter, realer white woman
you never met. Yeah - she was cool.
And the only other one I recognize
is the brunette back there
with the wide-mouth laugh,
Aunt Louise (aka "Wee Wee".)
(Love the earring, Wee.)
There was no way you could ever
get this
group to sit for a pic - or do ANYthing - without
them cracking each other up.
I wish any one of 'em were still alive.
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