The Sun City Sinner: A Las Vegas Peek into the Love Bible of Seniors

By Netta Schucco

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• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 23, 2012
• ISBN: 9781456747756

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© 2012 Netta Schucco. All rights reserved.

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First published by AuthorHouse 5/18/2012

ISBN: 978-1-4567-4776-3 (dj)

ISBN: 978-1-4567-4775-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012909074

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prologue

Part I

Chapter 1: Meet the Sun City Sinner

Chapter 2: Searching for Love (Three Cruises)

Chapter 3: Entering the Las Vegas Dance Halls

Part II

Chapter 4: Available Men in Our Las Vegas Dance Halls

Chapter 5: It’s John Who Takes Control of Netta’s Dance Space

Chapter 6: Dates Made in Our Las Vegas Dance Halls—(People Who Love Life, Music, and Dancing.)

Chapter 7: The Elderly, (Seniors Can Live Forever.)

Part III

Chapter 8: Improve All of You (Body, Soul, and Mind)

Chapter 9: Conquering Fear and Removing Negativity

Chapter 10: True Feelings of Love

Part IV

Chapter 11: Never Say Never to Love

Chapter 12: The Impeccable Cruise (Love’s Climax)

Chapter 13: A Sun City Sinner’s Confession

Photos

Part V

Chapter 14: Realities of Life, And Its Rude Awakening (The First Quarrel)

Chapter 15: When Hearts Chill Again (The Second Quarrel)

Chapter 16: Celebration Continues with Sadness (Third Quarrel)

Part VI

Chapter 17: A Great Celebration of the Glorious Fifth Anniversary

Chapter 18: Aiding the Poor in Our Community

Part VII

Chapter 19: When Cancer Strikes Your Family

Chapter 20: Final Farewell to Our Friends (Dancing Their Last Dance)

Part VIII

Chapter 21: Life’s Pleasures Continues for Some Seniors

Chapter 22: Sun City Sinners EPILOGUE

Chapter 23: My Shocking Ending to the Sixth Year

Dedications

A Special Thank You

Acknowledgments

To my good friends Christine and Matt Bardocz. They produced, filmed, and directed the documentary Off the Rocker, about the senior side of the Strip. This film was the impetus to my writing of this book. The entire film focuses on all of us Las Vegas Special Seniors as we take care of ourselves by eating well, exercising, dancing, loving, and enjoying sex. The goal of the film and my book is to encourage all seniors to take care of themselves and live life to the fullest. See and visit the documentary at www.filmcz.com.

I would like to acknowledge a special place in my heart for all the new friends I have made in the new life that my book is about. This includes Crystal and John, Bernadine and Jim, Corky and Ben, Donna and Bill, Lou and John, and Billy and Jean, plus the many seniors who share the dance halls with us to dance and sing. You can see all of them in the documentary. It also includes my good friends Dorie and Ken.

I know that many Las Vegas seniors will join me in a very special acknowledgment of our Las Vegas casinos—especially Arizona Charlie’s, Texas Station, Boulder Station, the Gold Coast, and Aliante Station. We fully appreciate their generosity, loving care, and continued support in giving us live bands and the use of their dance halls for weekly dancing. It has been going on for these past five years, making us seniors feel special.

I also want to acknowledge the many senior centers in Las Vegas, which care deeply for us all. They supply us with entertainment, dancing, and educational courses. Many courses are also offered to us by our Nevada community colleges including U.N.L.V. All courses are at a small fee. Nevada does indeed help to make all seniors in our great city feel that we are special people. Las Vegas loves us and we love Las Vegas.

Thanks are due to Jerry Tiffe and his wonderful trio, who are responsible for a lot of love and camaraderie that his songs and music infuse onto our dance floors as well as our lives. They work hard, playing for us all during the making of the documentary and the four nights a week for our continued dancing.

As always, John, for all the happiness, love, excitement, caring, devotion, dancing and for being my companion for the past five years and ten months. You have given all this to me steadily for six years. No longer must I pursue looking for love or a dance partner. I have found love in you, John, and with you.

Introduction

Extra, extra, read all about it! –Netta Tells All–

How a beloved and well-respected member of her church, religion, and congregation confesses to sinning and running afoul of her religion. She tells you about her inner thoughts and secrets that no senior would dare to talk about, let alone tell all in a book that will be sold nationally.

Take a good view of a devoted Catholic who was deeply connected to and involved in her religion for more than seventy-eight years.

As you read on, you will see just how and why she had committed to sinning in the sin city of the world, Las Vegas.

She explains in intimate and tantalizing detail every experience she has encountered for the past seven years. She includes her most exotic and sexual loves, which most seniors would hesitate to talk about, let alone tell in detail for the world to read.

Listen to how she is publicly charged with all of the worst embarrassment and humiliation she has ever had to endure. All of it was staged by the priest of her church, the priest she had loved and respected for more than twelve years. Was this the place to perform his duty? To Netta, this betrayal was far worse than what she endured on August 31, 2003.

It took her close to six years to write this book, because she wanted so very much to tell all the seniors who are young and old just what has taken place in her new life that she shares with new friends. Dancing in Las Vegas casinos in an atmosphere she had never dreamed that some day she would be a part of. Sharing it all with many new, lovable seniors. Especially the men and a perpetual love who entered her life.

She had a few messages she hoped to impart and inform her peers with. But she wanted to be very careful how she gave out this message. Especially the love messages. She is deeply concerned that all of her messages be true to all facts, so that every senior will be totally aware that this most likely will happen to each and every one of you. So be alert and aware, but most of all, heed all of the messages and advice that she wholeheartedly feels you need to know to continue your years of a gifted life. Entering her eighty-sixth year, she calls her gift from God a personal gift of life. You can all be a part of this chosen few. It is totally your choice. All you need to do is take advantage of your remaining years. So enjoy all that is there for you. Only you can remove all of the obstacles and negative issues that you may encounter. Allow no one at any cost to remove from you any single day or extra year you may have to enjoy. Let no one deprive you of a love of ecstasy to enjoy in the remaining years of your beautiful life. This gift of ecstasy is only from the love of God, who so willingly and blessedly has bestowed upon us, the chosen few. Show Him your love and the great respect that you have for Him, giving you a chance to be one of the chosen few. Guard and care for yourself well, so you can enjoy more days and years ahead. God bless us all with good health and longevity, while making us all part of the chosen few.

Prologue

In the early spring of 2005 at my home in Las Vegas, my phone rang. It was my very good friend from Los Angeles, Christine Blackburn, a beautiful and talented TV host and actress.

She was in Las Vegas to do a shoot at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and asked me to have dinner with her. We had not seen each other since my husband’s funeral, and I said I would love to see her again. But I already had plans for dinner and dancing with my new man friend and another couple.

She said, No problem; bring them along! Since you are Las Vegas residents, you can star in our film. We will have a few hours of daylight left to shoot the film.

So we met at the Paris Hotel, and after introductions, we all went to dinner. Christine was so amazed at my appearance that she kept saying, I can’t get over how wonderful and amazing you look. She told me again and again how I was positively glowing. She asked, What happened to you?

I had no idea that such a change had taken place in me personally. I knew I was in a strange new life but having the time of my life. For the first time after my husband’s death, I was happy. Christine was delighted.

John was at my side, and I put my arm around him and said caressingly, John and I have become a twosome. We are dancing three and four nights a week. We are having the time of our lives. This lifestyle, Christine, is all new and wonderful to me.

Then Bernadine and Jim spoke up. They said that they had been high school sweethearts, but after graduation, they went to college, drifted apart, and married others. Then three years ago, both widowed, they called each other, reunited, married, and moved to Sun City. They talked about our dancing and our dinner dates; sometimes there were twenty of us at the tables laughing, talking, and dancing.

We explained that there were many of us seniors with many stories to tell; many were soul mates who met in the casino dance halls, sharing their love of music and dance. I told her that this was my new life and my new family.

You can see the love and atmosphere of camaraderie when we are dancing. It is so wonderful; you need to see it, I said.

Christine was amazed to find out for the first time how exciting, fruitful, and useful our seventy- to ninety-year-old lives were. Our presence and happiness affected her so much that she said she would mention it to her husband, Matt, a Hollywood cameraman, who was looking for a subject for his first documentary. It would be great to show the excitement and activities of seniors from their sixties to over ninety years old.

John raised his glass and made a toast. Here’s to our new lives as movie stars. May it be lasting and fruitful. Here’s also to Matt and his lovely wife, Christine. We all drank to that. We had a delightful supper and said our good-byes.

Not long after that, Matt and I were in touch, and the plans began for the documentary. I contacted all my friends and asked if they would participate. Matt contacted all the hotels where we did our dancing, and of course, our number one music man of Las Vegas, Jerry Tiffe. It was a lot of work for everyone. Matt was everywhere with his camera and lighting crew. It was all new and interesting. We all loved it and were excited to be a part of something where we could share our secrets to love and life with young people. This project made a lot of us seniors feel important again, and it showed on our happy faces.

The documentary, Off the Rocker: The Senior Side of the Strip, was filmed in our community called Sun City. It featured John and me, Crystal and John, and Bernadine and Jim. Matt did a magnificent job. When it was completed, he entered it in several competitions, receiving recognition and awards. He was able to show the world that just because we are seniors in our seventies, eighties, or nineties and without our mates does not mean our lives are over. His film captured what a wonderful life we are having in Las Vegas as we continue to love with laughter, music, and dance. Visit www.filmcz.com and judge for yourself.

But during the preparation of this film, I began to feel a bit frightened. I was spending a great deal of time with John and my new Vegas family. At times, the excitement all around made me feel the same way I felt about my husband when we became lovers. This was startling and frightening. Could it be possible that at seventy-nine years young, I would have the same sexual feelings I had at nineteen?

This became quite obvious to me when on the way to the restroom at the dance hall one evening, a man I didn’t know stopped me and said, I would give anything if a woman looked at me the way you look at John when you are dancing together. Are you in love with John?

I was stunned. In the restroom, I took a good look at myself in the mirror. What was that all about? I couldn’t wait to tell John, whose first remark was, That man was making a pass at you.

I said, Really? Well, I need to know. So the first chance I got to see Matt again, I asked him about it.

He said, The man sees love. We saw it, too, when we filmed you dancing together.

I asked if this is why Matt featured us in the film, and he said yes.

I could not wait to tell John all of this. You can be sure he was beaming. I keep telling you just how much I love you! he said.

It was then that I decided I needed to tell seniors that what had happened to me at seventy-nine years young, was not a miracle. That if they lose a beloved spouse, it is not the end of life for them. It happened to me and can happen for them. It’s not a miracle.

So I started writing daily about my activities. I signed up for writing and computer classes. (In spite of all my degrees and education, I was computer ignorant.) I never had the urge or desire to get involved with computers, so I began writing all this in longhand with a painful price—it’s taken over five years.

I am still trying to write this book. I have had many problems and no help. A few times I felt I was finished and my book was complete. But I was wrong. Maybe I have finally figured out that I got mixed up with many unprofessional people. Only people my age who have lost a lover, spouse, or partner could understand why I want so desperately to get my message out. I know there is not a lot of time to get my message out. I am now in my mid-eighties. This book must be completed soon. I have an urgent desire and need to send this message, so all my peers can read it with all the know-how information that it contains.

A Miracle of Love

The birth of Alabama is the epitome of the word love. It did not take many years to show the world that the birth of a baby can be the result of a great love. Most of my life now is culminated by my new life and love. I continually remind myself that this is all happening and it’s real! The reason that it’s so real is because our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ will always be present. Love is still hovering over all of us seniors who want to live life with God and in his honor. It is especially meaningful to all the people who continue to help those in need of love in their lives. That is why the documentary is so meaningful to seniors.

Matt and Christine were also blessed with the love from seniors searching for love. This is what we seniors are calling a miracle of love. When the documentary had its debut in Las Vegas, Christine and Matt stayed at John’s house, and John stayed in my spare bedroom. Months after the successful showing of the film, Matt and Christine announced the birth of Alabama, who was conceived in Las Vegas in John’s bedroom. So we call Alabama the seniors’ love child, conceived in an atmosphere where true love existed.

Alabama represents the love child that most of us only wish could happen to those of us who are deeply in love again. At the age of seventy-five or eighty-five, the age is not right, but the love is.

I continue to enjoy life with my new friends and family at the casino dance halls. In the documentary, you can see this wonderful life I