Josephine Scarpitti Hamilton:  

Wow! What have I been up to? I got into a lot of trouble with my Mustang in Lorain. I got a lot of speeding tickets and my Father called the judge and told him to suspend my license for awhile. He did. Then a guy I was engaged to got picked up for dragracing on Broadway ( which I never did. Ha Ha!) and my Dad was furious. I told him my car could beat the other car. The next day I had a '67 Mustang, automatic, 6 cyl. and I raced it too. I obtained the name of Mustang Sally with the first car. In 1968 I had a baby girl and gave her up for adoption. Not too many people knew and it was better that way. Then, 18 months later I had a baby boy and a lot of you know him, Tony. I then went to work at Uncle Bills in Rocky River and still worked at the store. I came home one day and Tony called my Mom, Mom and I quit Uncle Bills. In 1983 my Dad and Mom decided to sell the delicatessen!!!!! What a shock that was. I always thought the store would be mine. I miss it sooo much to this day. Also in 1983 I met Dusty. He was a friend of a friend of mine and he was a biker without a bike. I didn't think this would go anywhere and we were married 9 months later. I seem to do things in 9 month time frames. My Dad opened a consignment shop in Sheffield Lake and it was ok, but it was too quiet and we closed it in a year. I worked at IGA for about 6 months and I sure didn't like working for someone else instead of family. I quit there in about 6 months. Tony got married and we became grandparents; Tony got divorced; Tony got married and we became grandparents (no, I'm not repeating myself). Dusty and I bought a big house in LaGrange in 1994 with a pool, it was on the corner of Lions Park and it was very peaceful. Tony and his second family moved in and then to Vermilion and the house got too empty. In 1996 we sold it in 3 weeks and moved back to Amherst to be closer to my Mom cause my Dad had passed away in '95. In 1998 Tony said he wanted to know about the baby I gave up and would like to find her. My heart skipped a beat and I met a person that had found their daughter through a registry called International Soundex Reunion Registry. I had named her Deborah Ann. I sent my paper in and contacted Catholic Social Services and they told me there had been some activity on the file a while back and she would see if the number still worked and she would tell her to send in a form also. The two people that were my contacts were Tony with the registry and Debbie with Catholic Social Services. I figured everything would work out good because I had named her Deborah and of course Tony. How much of a coincidence is that?? Th...Expand for more