Blubbo's World "Blubbo, oh Blubbo, where do I begin? You’re dead, gone, laid out rotting in a casket somewhere in the ground; and if that’s just your body, your corpse, your shell, God, I hope …
May 3, 2020
John Brizzolara with his sister and father. Robert Brizzolara died of a heart attack while on a fishing trip in Wisconsin in September 1968. He was 49 years and seven months old. In July of this year, I will be that age precisely.
Posted June 15, 2000
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Mourning Steve Esmedina and Judith Moore, first day of school, memories of Mom and Dad, the bar where Danielle Van Dam's mom was
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