A Few Stories Before I Forget
A Memoir by Michael Peteroy
Some stories are funny.
Some are painful.
All of them are true.
Michael Peteroy grew up on Staten Island with a father whose temper filled every room and a mother who quietly made sure her son knew who he was supposed to become. He watched, he kept score, and he went his own way.A Few Stories Before I Forget moves through a life in vivid, self-contained pieces — a childhood marked by fear and unexpected laughter, a coming-of-age that took longer than it should have, a love story that began with a protein shake, and a grief that never quite announces itself but shows up anyway, in the places you least expect.This is not a memoir about suffering or triumph. It's about the moments that turn out to mean something — and the ones that turn out to mean something else entirely.Michael Peteroy lives in Las Vegas. This is his first book.
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My mother, my sister, and me, 1973. The Host Farm Resort in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The fanciest place we'd ever vacationed, and to us, the height of luxury.
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