Saturday, July 9, 2022
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I have countless memories I can mention of my dear friend Steven, my very first friend. Together we could be quite mischievous as kids. We were the notorious “Ring and Runners” of Bonnie Drive throughout the 70s. Sorry friends, and former neighbors - it was likely us. We would do everything our moms asked us not to do - walking on the Long Island Sound when we thought it was frozen (Dot almost had coronary episode while witnessing this from the cliff), riding our bikes on 25A when we were much too young, army crawling in his parents bedroom while his dad was asleep to snag the five dollars on his bedside table, … the list goes on. We weren’t always just partners in crime, I was his boxing trainer there to hold the bag when he aspired to be the next Ali. I remember being upset with him as a kid, when he planned to open a reptile store one day without me. Friends sometimes asked us in middle and high school if we were ever ‘interested’ in one another. Truth is, we both knew his real love interest was always my mother (Rose). He finally disclosed this secret crush to me in one of our last conversations. My mother adored Steven too, and our childhood friendship. Although we didn’t live close as adults, our friendship continued and when we did see one another, we were the same silly immature kids we were so many years ago. Our three middle-school aged children looked on in astonishment one time when we wrestled one another mercilessly to the point of exhaustion in his parents back yard. We were then in our forties :). Steven was sweet, sensitive, hilarious and fiercely loyal to his beautiful family and friends. Did I mention that he was also lovingly but brutally honest at times?
Rest easy Steven, I miss you dearly my friend, and I forever will. Tina
