We have been together since I first caught his eye in 1979 and now although he has Alzheimer’s we are still enjoying life together.
We would like to thank you for supporting Gusmano and Rosa in this year's competition. Your participation allows us to aid both the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and Oceana in their respective missions to support hunger relief and ocean conservation.
I was 21 years-old, working the ticket booth at a theater when this man with long curly hair and intense eyes came running toward me shouting, “I found you! I finally found you!” Not until he invited me to his exhibit did I agree to go out with him. When I finally saw his photographs, I fell in love. They were huge black-and-white images of people from East Los Angeles, and he captured them as if they were film stars. 44 years later, we are still together, now Gusmano has Alzheimer’s and has for
What is your favorite memory you've shared as a couple?Hiking to the volcano in the island of Stromboli with our then 9 year-old son. It was a scary adventure of someone like me who is afraid of heights, and my husband hiked ahead with our son who was climbing the trail, both with the skills of a mountain goat. We held one another at the plateau and watched the lava flowing away from us and down to the sea below. The following morning we enjoyed a meal of tomatoes and cheese as if it was a feast, exhilarated to have survived the adventure.
What would you do with $20,000?We would use the funds to take a trip back to Stromboli with our now adult son and recreate the adventure of climbing up to view the volcano.
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