(Recollections of Rose Ragucci – recorded 12/29/2003 by Rosalie Ragucci)
My father (Anthony Ciaccio) and Aunt Lena (Lombardo) “intensely disliked” each other because they saw through each other. They had an argument at my cousin Louie’s (Ceppo) wedding and Lena said to my father “I don’t want to see you again –not even if you’re dead!”  From that moment on they avoided each others presence which meant that my grandmother (Rose Ciaccio) could not see her brother (Joe Lombardo).  It was so intense that they would even check when they went to visit Aunt Lena (Lombardo) that the other was not going to be there.  They didn’t speak for the last 12 years of my father’s life.  The family reconciled when my cousin Joe and Lana (Lombardo) had a family picnic after my father died and invited us to come.