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Larry Goldberg's avatar

Graduations are a right-of-passage to a brave new world, while we sit in our chairs and shower praise with our eyes and hearts for our descendants to reach their potential and do good in the world. This form of martyrdom is bearing witness to the love and good counsel we bestowed to nurture the soul and mind of our younger family members. I say...great job you old geezers.

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Love this and could not agree more, Larry. How trite to say " the fruits of our labors," but I'm saying it. We cherished every moment.

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Joseph Giusto's avatar

I never get tired of reading your writing Dr. Ed!

Whether a doctor or a writer, you certainly have chosen both very well!

Joe GIUSTO

Oh, I still have my Dad’s poems…in Italian…and you may copy any of them, my pleasure.

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Thank you for your kind comments, Joe. I'd love to see your Dad's poems

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Sofia Bianco's avatar

Can’t thank you enough for celebrating with me! Love you papa❤️

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

The best days of our lives, Sofia, and you helped to make it happen. We love you.

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Randy Walters's avatar

A note on bagpipers: they seem to be always in the distance … so that we can hear the sound of the pipes *skirling* o’er the moors.

Few instruments are blessed with a word so evocative of their sound as the pipes and “skirl.” Coming from old Norse “to shriek,” its associations have grown far beyond that coarse assessment, to include the acoustic effects of great echoing spaces that combine doppler-shifted delays with the original sound to enhance the already out-of-tune beating of multiple instruments joined together.

But I digress. : )

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Beautiful. Skirling. A new word for me, Randy. I love it. And it reminds me of the other experience: tatoo.

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Cindi F's avatar

Beautifully written! Great memories with family. A physician was your passion and a great one you are.

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Thank you, Cindi. You are most kind. We are most lucky.

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Fritz Vohr's avatar

Congratulations Nicely done

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Thanks, Fred. We are lucky to be able to do it.

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Charles Morin's avatar

While I was in high school, I wanted to be a physician too. Going to medical school at Brown was a highlight of my life, in large measure because of my clerkship with you almost fifty years ago! Now all I have to do is perfect my golf game (way more challenging than medicine). Charlie

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Thank you, Charlie. Weren't we lucjky to share in the world of patient care and teaching.

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Terry Doherty's avatar

So beautifully said, Ed. Your message is a beautiful, uplifting way to begin the day. Carol.

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Ed Iannuccilli's avatar

Thank you, Carol. You made my day.

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