Over the next 11 months we will be sharing the Memoirs That Made Me Who I Am. These are compiled stories written about the life of a former Gallup resident Eugene Leone. Before his passing, he wrote, “It is with great delight that I share these stories from my heart, which have been inside for many years. My desire is that the reader would be able to go back to a time that was very real and may have been lost through the years.
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Chapter Three
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Lessons Learned
Well now, since this narrative has become somewhat morose, it seems a good time to interject a scary but amusing segment of my earlier adventures. My grandfather, Dominic Leone, and his esteemed wife, Enriquetta were parents of the following brood: Number one, Raymond, the oldest son, a self-taught plumber
and a communist who believed that almost everything that Americans ate are poisonous. Number two was Antonio (Tony) my father. Number three was Oliver, the only intellectual who went on to become a college certified meteorologist. Then came Virginia, the only girl who believed that she knew just about
