She Moved Again

By Rosaria Lanza

Rosaria Lanza hopes this book will encourage people to keep going on with this thing we call life no matter what happens to us. There is always light at the end of the tunnel.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 12, 2024
• ISBN: 9798890617033

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Table of Contents

Title

Copyright

Chapter 1: Tina's New Life

Chapter 2: John's Mother's House

Chapter 3: Tina's Mother's House

Chapter 4: The First Mastic House

Chapter 5: The Second Mastic House

Chapter 6: The Third Mastic House

Chapter 7: The Fourth Mastic House

Chapter 8: The First Apartment

Chapter 9: Tina's Brother's House

Chapter 10: The Second Apartment

Chapter 11: The First Rented House

Chapter 12: The First Rented Cottage

Chapter 13: Owned Another House

Chapter 14: Moved to Florida

Chapter 15: Owned First Duplex

Chapter 16: More Trouble

Chapter 17: Back to Renting a House

Chapter 18: Moved Back to Florida

Chapter 19: Hurricane Trouble

Chapter 20: Moved Back to Long Island

Chapter 21: A Basement Apartment

Chapter 22: Moved to the West Coast of Florida

Chapter 23: Moved to the East Coast of Florida

About the Author

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She Moved Again

Rosaria Lanza

Copyright © 2024 Rosaria Lanza

All rights reserved

First Edition

NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING

320 Broad Street

Red Bank, NJ 07701

First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2024

ISBN 979-8-89061-702-6 (Paperback)

ISBN 979-8-89061-704-0 (Hardcover)

ISBN 979-8-89061-703-3 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

To my five children, whom I love

Tina has moved more than twenty-five times in forty-five years. Some of the moves are not mentioned in this book because they were only for a few days or weeks. She hopes this book encourages someone to keep going no matter how dark things look. There is always light at the end of the tunnel.

Chapter 1

Tina's New Life

We live in a world full of sorrow for a lot of us. When Tina was sixty-six years old, she started remembering all the pain she went through all her life. She did not want to think about the problems, and up until this point, she did not let herself think about how hard life had been. But now, for some reason, the thoughts were flooding her mind, and she could not turn them off. So here it goes…

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In 1972, Tina was in eleventh grade, attending a Catholic high school. That summer vacation from school, Tina met John at her friend's house. John was nineteen years old and had just returned to the United States from Germany, where he was stationed in the army. He was only in the army for a brief time because he was dishonorably discharged for not obeying orders. This did not matter to Tina because she liked John. That day at her friend's house, everyone was getting high on drugs and alcohol. Tina had tried these things in the past but did not like them because she always got sick from them. So she did not take part in them, but John did all of it.

Tina liked John. He had long hair and was Italian. She was sixteen years old and noticeably young and naive, having gone to Catholic school for twelve years. Tina did not go out in the world much at all, so John was something new and exciting in Tina's life. After that first meeting at her friend's house, they continued to see each other almost every day. Tina was still in high school, and John would use his mother's car to pick up Tina from school. Tina had not been exceedingly popular, so now that she was dating an older man, she suddenly became extremely popular in her school. This was so exciting for her. John told Tina he would stop drinking and using drugs, and she believed him. Tina thought she could change him, but she found out you could not change anyone but yourself. They only knew each other for about a month, and they had a car accident; this was August 15, 1972. Tina was hurt, but John was not hurt. Tina had put her teeth through her bottom lip and received thirty stitches. She was left with a permanent scar on her sixteen-year-old face.

This was not a clever way to start a relationship because John felt deeply sorry for hurting Tina. He was a kind soul and never wanted to hurt her, but as the years went by, she realized she loved him more than he loved her. Tina and John did not go on dates or to many places like people who were courting normally did, and that was because they didn't have much money. But one time, she remembered she went to a Chinese restaurant with John and his mother. Tina was so excited, wearing her bell-bottoms and going to a restaurant, because she never really went out to eat like that. There were blowfish turned into lights above the table where they ate their Chinese food. It was all new and amazing to Tina because she was so young.

Normally, John and Tina would just hang out at Tina's parents' house. John liked being around her five brothers and the family setting because his mother was always working, and John only had one younger brother at home. John's father had died when he was thirteen years old. John was alone with his father the day he died in their house. It was traumatic for John, and he never really got over it. After his father died, his mother had to go to work even more. So family life was not there for