by cvcj-editor | May 9, 2018 | Caregiver Couples, Stories
“Catherine, Mike needs a date for a party on New Year’s Eve. Will you go with him?” her friend Annette asked. “Sure, why not?” After all, they were all friends, right? They were really a group, Annette’s brother, Franny, Mike, Joe, and Bob....
by cvcj-editor | Apr 26, 2018 | Caregiver Couples, Stories
“When are you taking me to dinner?” was the teasing question Gloria would ask Elton whenever she ran into her friend from her youth. It took Elton awhile to bite. Gloria and Elton had a long history, going all the way back to middle school when Elton had moved to...
by cvcj-editor | Apr 11, 2018 | Caregiver Couples, Stories
Matchmaker, Matchmaker,Make me a match,Find me a find,Catch me a catch.(from Fiddler on the Roof) That might have been Gregory Cinque’s earworm as he consulted Compatibility Plus in the winter of 1985. Greg, 45 and a career man, wanted to meet a woman. He wasn’t...
by cvcj-editor | Mar 28, 2018 | Caregiver Couples, Stories
Ocean County natives Linda and Robert Horn didn’t have to go far to find each other. Robert lived in Brick, and Linda lived in Toms River. They met at church over forty-five years ago, when they were both youth advisors at St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Brick. It...
by cvcj-editor | Mar 14, 2018 | Caregiver Couples, Stories
Steve Scribellito was on top of the world. It was a beautiful summer day in 1951. The only thing missing was a pretty girl sitting in the passenger seat of the secondhand 1939 Plymouth he had bought for himself. As fortune would have it, a couple of girls in capri...
by cvcj-editor | Feb 28, 2018 | Caregiver Couples, Stories
“Patti, I think Mikey has eyes for you.” At her father’s pronouncement, Patti Macaluso did a very unladylike thing… she spit out her food as she burst into peals of laughter. Mikey Scimeca was a family friend. The Scimecas lived on the same Brooklyn street as the...
