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| Alfonse Falcone at a New Haven hockey game |
This week's topic was
somewhat difficult - King? I wasn't sure who in our family best fit that title.
I decided my step-father, Alfonse (Alphonse) Falcone best fit the bill.
"Alfie" entered my life when he met my mother shortly after her
divorce in 1962. My father had left my mother with four little girls to raise,
ranging in age from 7 (me) to 1. As my mother (Doris Lichtenthal) told me, "Once we (she and
Al) met we were inseparable." By 1968, they had a son, had married and set
about raising my sisters and brother, along with Al's three children from his
previous marriage. In my opinion. Alfie was a "king" of a man- a
lesser man would never have taken on such a challenge.
