MY PERFECT AMERICAN FAMILY

After dinner, we ran outside because there were always plenty of good kids to play with in our neighborhood. Mom and Dad worked hard to create this life for us. I am fortunate to belong to the baby boom. Elise (left) and I turned 5 in 1968. We celebrated with our sisters Carol (in green) and Judith, and parents, Irene and Edward. •

“One does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”

Gabriel Garcia Marquez