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Frank Cotolo
March 27, 2014 |
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Nov. 4 - I think the meds are kicking in because my bed feels softer and the babe next to me
is smiling before I tip her.
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April 13 - My stupid bookie called today and said I was not betting enough for him to feed
his children, so out of pity I bet on four boxing matches. Later that night I found out I lost all
four bets. He called just before I went to bed and said if I didn't have his money by noon tomorrow
he was going to break his children's legs.
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June 8 - I thought a lot about her today and that made me so sad I bought two pints of
Scotch Whiskey and drank one before I drove home. An hour later, on Pittfield Avenue, I got a
ticket for drunk driving without a car.
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July 13 - Sometimes life plays tricks on all of us but today life played a trick so cruel
that I almost thought about joining the Coast Guard.
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Jan. 25 - I have to get weaker meds because the ones I am taking are hard to chew.
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March 7 - I am too hard on myself. I blame myself for so many things that by the end of the
day I am depressed. Like today ... It wasn't my fault that my dog Zippy wouldn't respond to my
command to stop before he ran wrecklessly into the barbed wire fence I placed around his doghouse.
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June 6 - I thought a lot about her today and that made me decide to go on a hunger strike.
Starting tomorrow I will not eat another thing until she answers my love letters, which I will put
in the mail as soon as I find her new address after lunch.
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May 12 - Today I did a strange thing: I called my mother on the telephone. I actually forgot
the number had changed but that wasn't the worse of it because I also forgot that fifteen years ago
she died.
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May 25 - I needed yet another job to make ends meet so I went on an interview to be a radar
specialist. The job pays great and has many benefits but as it turned out they wanted to hire
someone who knew a lot about radar technology.
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Aug. 3 - The rent is due again and I have to borrow money from Uncle Sal. I hate to do it
but I will ask him for a loan tomorrow. It's not that I dislike asking for help or that he would
ever refuse me, it's how he forgives the loan only if I go with him to the airport in the middle of
the night and help unload a cargo plane and put heavy boxes into a truck that cousin Angelo keeps
in neutral until the truck is full. The last time I did it I hurt my foot.
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