Dear Commons Community,

On this day, we honor our dads.  My dad, Amadeo, was born and raised in Brooklyn, and married my mother, Philomena, in 1935.  They lived most of their entire adult lives in the South Bronx. They had three children: Donald, Peter, and me. He worked in a warehouse just off the docks on West 55^th Street in Manhattan for thirty years.  He could have been in a scene in the Marlon Brando movie, On the Waterfront.  When he came home from work at night, he was exhausted, had dinner, and fell asleep on our couch. He never graduated high school but was very smart in many important ways including instilling in my brothers and me the importance of education.

I will always love him!

Tony

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