NEWSLETTER JUNE 2023 - "Making Connections" ✋✌👆👉👋✋👌👆👐👏 Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there! I'm back on Long Island this week to celebrate my own Dad on Father's Day. He's 93 now and some of you may remember him from his escapades while we were growing up in Mayfair. The most memorable, I think, was one Halloween when he got made up with ratty clothes and a theatrical mixture of maple syrup, oatmeal flakes and mom's make-up on his face and went out to terrorize the neighborhood kids as some lumbering, moaning and groaning hunchback. I passed him on my way home as he was headed out and ran home to report the scary man to mom who just said, "That was your father." It wasn't a half hour later that he came home through the back door, ran to the bathroom, washed and changed while it seemed the whole neighborhood was gathering on our front lawn. "We know he's in there!", "Send him out!" My Dad finally ope...
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