New Yorker Magazine Dated ... OCTOBER 11, 2021 ...

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I have seen 101

New Yorker Magazine covers

suitable for

museum display

but for 101

GodFather ofMath 

reasons,

the cover pictured below

is my 

All-Time Favorite:

 

 

 

I might have featured 

this cover before

but if so,

I wasn't cognizant of 

the date of issue

which brings to mind

the following copyrighted quote:

 

THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES

THERE ARE ONLY DIVINE PARALLELS

 

October 11, 2021

was my sister Linda's

seventy-fifth birthday

 

Her 1975 death certificate

notwithstanding,

 

I see/hear/feel

my older sister's touch

as many as seventy-five times

on any given day

 

Like our parents

who graduated this earth

four years before she did,

it is impossible for me to miss them

because no trio of people

is more omnipresent to me

than them

 

The divine parallel

of Lynda's 75th birthday

and a magazine cover

helped to make

my 75th birthday

[May 18,2024]

the happiest day

of my Long Beach life 

thanks to 

five hours of 

phone/text/email

conversation

with friends and family

+

the glorious generosity

and warmth

of Mrs. CarPeo

 

One of those conversations

was with my living sister

about whom 

I will say

nothing more than

she is sixty-eight

going on thirty-seven

even when she is in the presence 

of her six grandchildren

 

Wherever she goes,

chiropractors work overtime

because countless men

are turning their heads

much too quickly 

just to get 

one look at my

"little sister"

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© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

 

Cover Artist = Luci Gutierrez  

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