MILA & I
Flower & Fifth Ave. Hospital NYC
"It never rains in Southern California"
To be listened.
Hi son.
This song is very moving to me. It was fashionable when I arrived to this country.
When I went to Flower & 5th Ave Hospital where mom worked in the Surgical Cardiac ICU where they brought the patients after heart surgery to be taken care of. Your mom was the star nurse there. The most brilliant and the most courageous.
I was disconcerted because I had to learn a mountain of things all at once because
life had to continue. But your mom was my light. She also had traumas in her
country but had survived and in NYC she moved like a fish in the water by that time.
She had migrated five years before and was so acquainted with the system. She helped me regain all my confidence in life. This song was in fashion at that time. We listened to it all the time wherever we went. I used to tease her by saying: "It never rains in Southern California" and she replied jokingly to me saying: "But I left my heart in San Francisco" and laughed. What precious moments. To me these remembrances are alive and golden made. They will always be in my mind and in my words. As a matter of fact I would be very happy if those moments could exist again, with mom and I reliving the moment. Something that is impossible. But they can be remembered with great lucidity, as if it was alive, in the words of a biography so it could be read in the future. That is what I intend to do in the months of life that I still have ahead of me.
Greetings.
It never rains in Southern California... but girl don't they warn ya. It pours, man it pours...
Papa
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