OH YES, NOW I REMEMBER

It’s La Senorita’s birthday. Sibling #2, Francesca Dzicek. That name is like kielbasa and spaghetti! Sibling #2 is my second sister, the person who not only followed sister #1, but me also.

It was a cold December morning in the middle nineteen forties, Mom was on her way out to the hospital, and Sister #1 and me stayed behind, with my aunt. The little apartment on Hull Street was going to get even smaller. Fran was coming, and we had new accommodations. I would get the couch, and that was that.

#2 grew up to have three children and a few (3) grandchildren, after marrying the Prince of Poland and/or Connecticut. Connecticut is actually a government in exile, waiting for the Soviets to leave Warsaw.

Fran has a happy disposition, as long as you don’t step on her foot, or drink her soda. SHE, was named “Boss” of the soda by Dear old Dad, and was until she had to have a tooth removed because of too much soda! Of course, she was only about 4 when that happened, but none of us had soda again until we married.

If you want to have fun and laugh, Fran is the “Go to Gal”, whose biggest thrill was “Telling Mommy on you.” She excelled at it.

Like all my sisters, she is beautiful, fun and talks very fast, but with her hands. She is by law, not allowed to talk near train stations, because her hands are so active she redirects trains and has caused major tie-ups throughout the system in Connecticut as they think they are being waved off,. She is also barred at airports from going out on the tamarack because she once directed a Southwest 737 to the helicopter pad at Bradley Airport, and she just talking to herself!

So, to the Queen of Princess Summerfall, Dilly Dally, Phineas T. Buster, and Flubba Dub: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NIPPY!
If she is 90, you can say she “Looks Good”, I think.

You ask, Nippy? Why Nippy is her real name, she likes a nip or two before leaving for school in the morning, and as she explains: “It fortifies me for all the little children I teach, hic!”

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