ABSTRACT
The year 1994 began as a disaster for me and my family. First, we experienced a terrible earthquake in our neighborhood which destroyed many homes and took many lives. Then we lost our beautiful granddaughter, Nydia. She was born with a heart defect and died at nineteen weeks. Then my good friend and theatrical agent Len Kaplan died of a heart attack. And at the end of May, my mother Nicoletta died. I flew back to Massachusetts and, on my birthday, June 2nd, we buried my mother.
