News of Tony Bennett’s death early this morning at the age of 96 is triggering a lot of response from my fellow writers on Substack. I, too, note a cascade of memories and feelings that I want to try to capture before my mind darts in another direction.
The life of Antonio Dominic Benedetto started humbly enough in Astoria, Queens with his grocer-father…
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