In the Beginning...

This is us, Frank Capobianco and Gina Lichinchi. 25 years ago. I can't believe how fast it really did go. We were married on August 7th, 1982 Frank was 21, I was 22 yrs. old. We were married at Cure' of Ars church in Merrick NY. Our reception was at Manor East Catering hall right here in Massapequa, Ny the town in which we live. The catering hall is only a couple of blocks away from the house we bought a month before our wedding.Well, Frank's brother Carmine and a few others tied cans and streamers all over our 1978 dodge van, being we spent our wedding night at our home we drove it there, cans dragging on the street all the way. There used to be a bar on the corner and a lot of people were standing outside and when we came along still dressed in our wedding clothes, dragging those cans behind the green van, everyone who was outside started cheering and waving, it was really nice. The next morning at 7am my mother-in-law called to see if "I was alright" then at about 8am the little kid from across the street came over to collect for unicef.. isn't that usually done in October? And did he need to come over on a Sunday morning? Anyway, we gave him something said thanks and quickly closed the door to only notice him joining his siblings in ripping off our decorations that had covered the van. We should have guessed right then our lives were going to be very eventful and different....