Searching for The Visible Woman
A Staten Island Romance in a West Brighton Basement
Most of my childhood on Staten Island was possessed by building plastic Revell Models sold at Smiling Sonny’s Toy Store on Forest Avenue. I had a whole series of World War II fighter planes, including my favorite, the Dauntless Dive Bomber, which had a working bomb bay, and the Sherman Tank with its movable gun turret. I soon graduated to historic fi…
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