Our friendship with Frankie started about 22 years ago .Joann ,Madie and I were co workers and developed a friendship about two years before our husbands met. After the three of us went out after work and took each other out for birthdays , we decided we should have the husbands meet.I think it was at Luchentos in Millstone as Madie had a great liking for their Chicken Parm and so if the husbands didn't hit it off at less the Chicken Parm would be a hit. Well the husbands took to each other right away, especially Frankie and Ray as they both loved Chivas.So from that day on the friendship of 6 people grew and grew. In these 22 years we would share the death of parents,weddings.of children , a few divorces, birth of grandchildren and a few surgeries.christening and birthdays. We stood by ,we supported ,we cared ,we cried with and laughed with each other.From dinners throughout the state, Boardway shows, to concerts, seeing Rod Stewart ,Paul Anka,AC ,Princeton's Palmer Square, Peddler's Village Parc Casino ,Monmouth Park Longwood Gardens , Pier Village ,we did it all together.Than a weekend trip to Caesars Pocons and to Villa Roma Catskill.....We decided that for our 60 th bithdays, 2009 we would go to Las Vegas with a help of legal drugs and a few glasses of wine I was ready to fly (last time I flew was 1990)....Great memories were made in Vegas for the 6 of us.....than my son's wedding in Aruba in 2012 , and our last big trip would be California, we rented a car and drove up the Pacific Coast in July 2014. I will always remember our Frankie bringing much laughs to our friendship from his zany T-shirts with great messages and the time we circled Palmer Square looking for parking when he finally said to John stop and he went in the parking lot marked with a sign lot full....Frankie came out of the lot and smiled while moving the sign and had John park and Frankie moved the sign back in its place..John of course thought the lot had cameras ....Frankie we love you, you brought so much to our friendship. P.S.,Frankie if Heaven is Full when we try and enter please move the sign and let us in .Thanks for all the great memories.
