Beginnings
by Edward Galluzzi
Beginnings
Copyright ©2010 by Edward Galluzzi
ISBN-13 978-1-926918-29-7
Second Edition
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Galluzzi, Edward, 1951-
Beginnings [ electronic resource ] / written by Edward Galluzzi – 2nd ed. ISBN 978-1-926918-29-7 Also available in print format. I. Title. PS3607.A423Z46 2008 813'.6 C2008-907169-7 Additional cataloguing data available from Library and Archives Canada
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British Columbia, Canada
Acknowledgements
I wish to thank Antonette M. Burks (Toni) for her proofing of the manuscript and her suggestions for the final edit. I also wish to thank my mother Roberta, my sister Diane, my brother Rick, and my father William, who passed away on February 23, 2004, for enriching our family history and Italian culture.
Contents
Chapter 1: The Sum of the Parts
Chapter 7: The Love of My Life
Chapter 8: The Ever Deepening Love
Chapter 13: You’re So Far Away
Chapter 15: In the Still of the Night
Chapter 16: Respects to the Young and Innocent
Chapter 19: Wizard? Surely You Jest-Sir!
Chapter 21: Friendship Takes A Holiday
Chapter 23: Laughing Your Way Through Singledom
Chapter 24: Internet Dating – The Final Frontier?
Beginnings is based on the lives of Greg and Charly that propels the reader on an emotional roller coaster, as events unfold in their lives, including the more absurd and amusing aspects of life. Beginnings traverses the singledom lives of Greg and Charly and bring them together. The global benchmarks that help define them and a people unfold for each decade of their lives. Life is a continuing series of choices and adjustments that we all face. To not make choices or to leave these choices to others surrenders our personal control over life events.
We all encounter collectively many beginnings and beginnings of the end. We share them for they are part of what we call the human condition. Some beginnings are quite important; others we hardly notice in passing. Greg and Charly experience many beginnings and beginnings of the end—some predictable, some unexpected. Beginnings can have tranquil effects, bring humor into our lives, balance absurdities, or end periods of misery and pain. Some beginnings are critical moments in our lives as they forever change us for better or worse—they bring us together or tear us apart. They recycle through our existence and impact on us and on those around us with whom our lives intersect. They are intimately tied to human relationships as they strengthen or weaken the stuff that binds us. Beginnings of the end do not ask permission to intrude and their meddling can change our lives forever. Instead of anchoring our lives in stability, they create mayhem and conflict, and push us on unplanned paths.
The beginnings that impact on Greg and Charly unfold in the pages to come. Yet, these are not necessarily unique experiences and readers can relate to their own beginnings and beginnings of the end. However, I am getting ahead of myself. I would like to tell you about the circumstances of my world just before my beginning and the woman in my life, Charly . . .
Chapter 1 The Sum of the Parts
They say you cannot understand the whole of anything without putting together and understanding its parts—sort of the jigsaw puzzle of life. Although one’s