Dean Atkinson is a serious man. He started being serious very young. Born into a military family, his father was an alcoholic who drank up the family’s money. Dean began working at eight years of age. “I collected newspaper subscriptions at the naval air station where we lived, it was $20.00 a week. That allowed [...]
At 75, Mary Midgett aka Midgett, is ebulliently, happily and wildly in love. “I’ve been in love for a little over a week and I’m not sure if I’m on the planet right now! We have 97% of things in common,” said Midgett. “She has the look. She’s just so cute and handsome, and I’ve [...]
Felicia Elizondo will be celebrating her 65th birthday on July 23rd. She is not a woman who worries about revealing her age. Born in San Angelo, Texas to a family of four siblings, she knew early that “I was different. I was very feminine and loved to prance around. Other people knew and called me [...]
“I’m old,” Marc Tosca says. “However, considering the alternative, am quite pleased. Walking upright all these years, having traveled the world, Antarctica the exception, am thus extremely opinionated.”
This neat summary, however, doesn’t even begin to illuminate his story.
“I’m really a Puerto Rican kid from the South Bronx,” said Marc, when pressed. While I’ve suffered reversals of fortune, life has indeed been very good to me.”
Marc was born in 1942 in Gurabo, Puerto Rico and lost his left eye at the age of 6 months old. During WWII, he was brought to the mainland for surgery, his family relocating to the Bronx.
