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Family Storytelling

           Once upon a time, in the kingdom of St. Clair Shores, there was a humble pink bricked castle. There in the two bedroom castle, was a master suit for the king and queen Salvatore and Jean, and another room for five children, one of them being my mother. For some unexplained reason all of the villagers tended to be Italian or Sicilian and everyone was on a family name basis.       The children grew up and left to go on their own ventures, all of them grew very successful becoming electricians and carpenters, but not for my mother. After the endless hours at the kingdom’s finest Taco Bell my mother was the first woman in her family to go to college.      Before the king and queen both passed their enlarged family would always go to church on Sundays and afterwards go back to a new and bigger Castle to come up with a meal to feed the family of now forty-five.       I am so privileged enoug...