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Celestine Corte: my grandmother's sister by another mother, along with Antonio and Virginio. When I was born, “Tina” was asked to be my Godmother. She wasn't around too much, but she, like great Uncle Tony had a room in the family home at 1738 Adams Street in 'Da' Bronx. Adams Street was Perpendicular to the 180th Street IRT train station on Morris Park Avenue. Celestine Corte was a beautician, and obviously a good one; she spent winters in Florida at the 'Fontan Bleu' hotel in Boca Raton. For the next season she would travel with the ocean liner Michelangelo and work for a few cruises there. There were other work that was done in summers at the Montauk Manor on the tip of Long Island. I remember fondly, early in my life, spending a week at a small bungalow on the north shore next to the 'Montauk Manor' in a cabin that might have been a remnant of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders quarantine lodgings after the Spanish American War. I, spent the time fishing on the very rocky shore that was nothing like the sandy shores I was used to on our normal summers in Staten Island. I was spoiled. I would find other similar rocky shores on a couple of trips to Italy and the Greek islands.
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