Growing Up Red Hook
Love Meant to Be
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by Danette Vigilante
ince Valentine’s Day is upon us and love will be on the minds of most everyone, I’d like to share with you the following tale.
Some years ago, two Brooklyn women with the same first name, went into labor around the same time. They both wound up in Methodist Hospital where one gives birth to a boy, and the other, a girl. The two babies share the same nursery where one, most likely the boy, (based on his future loudness levels), keeps all the other babies awake, including the girl baby. Both babies go on with their lives growing into curly headed kids. Both are string bean skinny and share a love of pizza. When it comes time for High School, both babies attend the same school. This is when worlds begin to collide for the second time. The babies, now teenagers, find their way to each other and begin to date. It doesn’t last long. Just enough time to spark something in their worlds. Again, they go on with their lives until years later, when they meet again. The boy asks the girl for a date; she agrees. Later, the boy thinks about canceling but doesn’t. The date goes on as planned though the girl has a hard time keeping her mouth closed. She talks and talks and talks. He listens. And listens some more. All the while, he’s thinking yes, she’s got the gift of gab but somehow, I like all she has to say. Her thoughts are on his handsomeness and how she wishes she could stop her uncontrollable … blabbing. But, try as she might, it was no use. It was as though she’d been silent for years only now allowed to speak. Two years go by when, on a Brooklyn beach, he asked her to marry him by way of an airplane. The banner waved for all to see: “Danette, will you marry me?” The baby boy had always been mine, and I, his. All those years ago, when we first breathed life, it was meant to be. Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you! May you treasure the love you have or find the love that puts a spark in your world.
Danette Vigilante is a children’s author living in New York City with one husband, two daughters, Mr. Noodle, her love hog Yorkshire terrier and Daisy, a cat with a seriously bad attitude. Her newest book, The Trouble with Half a Moon, is in local bookstores and available for purchase online at Amazon and other booksellers. Welcome to YOUR community newspaper!
The Red Hook Star-Revue The News of South Brooklyn Volume 3 No. 3, February 1-15, 2012
Founded in 2010 by Frank Galeano and George Fiala
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