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but not there yet. I’m anxiously looking for a transplant. When you have diabetes you may have complications … it may be blindness, heart attack, it may be kidneys or it may be foot amputation. There’s a plethora of symptoms that can come along with diabetes. With me it was the kidney. It’s a creeping disease that makes its presence known somewhere along the line.”

Immediately after graduation from Bishop Kenrick High School in 1963 Angelo joined the U.S. Nav y.

“I was a seaman third class. I didn’t go to Vietnam but I was there during Vietnam,” he said.

After serving in the Navy for three years, Angelo got married, worked as an electronics technician and raised a family in Collegeville.

“When they grew up I decided to explore my hobby of juggling and it grew into a profession as a magician,” said Angelo, who cultivated his professional renown as Juggler Al (juggleral.com), which kept him busy entertaining young fans for years.

“I make little kids laugh for a living. I did that every weekend for the last 20 years and just recently have been turning jobs down because I don’t have the stamina to do a full 45 minute performance. But once I get my transplant I’ll come back and pick up my career where I left off,” he said. “My request for a kidney is my fight and I’m in it to win. I want people to call me and ask me questions. I want my number out there and to be relevant.”

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“I make little kids laugh for a living. I did that every weekend for the last 20 years and just recently have been turning jobs down because I don’t have the stamina to do a full 45 minute performance. But once I get my transplant I’ll come back and pick up my career where I left off.”

— Al Angelo