Laurel Marie Cone Research Paper

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Laurel Marie Cone sat curled up in a chair watching the water on Lake St. Allister. She liked to sit on the stone patio her late husband, Joe Cross, had built when they designed their mansion. She was lost in memories of her past. This summer she would be 43-years old and she could feel the changes in her body as well as the changes in her life. She came to Chicago from Catania, Sicily when she was 18-years old. She and her three-year-old nephew, Michael, were alone on that trip. Laurel was the only mother Michele knew since her parents and sister Monica, the boy’s birth mother, died in an epidemic that devastated their hometown. Laurel and Michael survived, and her half-brother sent them to the US to be with the boy’s father, Rizzo. Rizzo

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