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Okay, I was born at an early age in Rochester, New York.

We're listening to Tom Galesano.

My father was from the old country, Sicily.

My mother was born in the United States.

He had an older sister and older brother. When I was in high school, my mom and dad had their financial difficulties.

They had to go through bankruptcy.

My father, after World War II, went into a business converting coal furnaces to gas and oil furnaces.

And my older brother, Charlie Charlie also worked for my father.

Then he got called off to the Korean War.

And unfortunately he didn't come back.

He was there three days, was put up on the front lines.

And he was with a company of men that was attacked by a battalion of Chinese and didn't come back.

So after that event, my father's business kind of went to hell.

He went to work for a macaroni company that was based in Rochester as a salesperson.

But as a salesperson also drove a truck and delivered to these small grocery stores.

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