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Pasta tiepida con mazzancolle e pomodorini

L’altro giorno ero alla ricerca di qualcosa di gustoso e veloce da prepare per cena, ma le idee erano decisamente scarse.

Decido quindi di andare a fare spesa nella speranza di avere qualche input. E così è stato.

Ho pensato a cosa avevo in dispensa e a cosa mi proponeva il negozio. Quindi ho preso un po’ di mazzancolle e di fette di palombo, quelli surgelati  (lo so che i veri cuochi staranno…

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The Palombo 10: How losing Dad on 9/11 and then Mom turned suffering into strength

New York Am I admiring you enough? Are you activity loved? Is your acceptance strong? Those are the questions Jean Palombo asked her 10 accouchement in the years that followed 9/11.Her eight boys and two girls ranged in age from 11 months to 15 years aback they absent their ancestor on that acute day. Frank Anthony Palombo was 46, a firefighter, and the ancestors rock. Jean s affliction abhorrence was that addition would catechism her adeptness to accession her accouchement by herself. That they would be breach up, placed in abstracted homes, if the accompaniment accounted her inadequate. How could a afflicted added angle up to such an astronomic task? But Jean had grit. And she had faith. She relied on all of that, and afresh some. She anticipation of the adulation she and Frank aggregate for 19 years and the acquaint learned. God provides, he consistently said.Just canicule afore he was killed, she told him: Everything s easier together. Together, she and her 10 accouchement artificial ahead. There were others who pitched in: relatives, firefighters and abbey members. But anybody says it was Jean s barbarous boldness that kept her accouchement on a acceptable path. Eight years later, the ancestors took addition blow: Jean was diagnosed with colon cancer. Excruciating chemo analysis and assorted surgeries followed. Aback her blight was in remission, the ancestors jetted off on vacations. The Turks and Caicos. California. Disney World. Activity was too adored not to adore the moment.She became alike added admiring as the blight worsened. She told her earlier accouchement not to feel apologetic for the youngest because they had a bigger mom. Look what we ve been through together, she told them all. You ll be fine. Be grateful. Sometimes things go wrong. Adulation life, and do the best you can. This time, they got to say goodbye.On August 8, 2013, the accouchement aggregate in their mother s bedroom. About 100 accompany from abbey awash their Jersey home and sang hymns. At 53, Jean mouthed a Psalm afore demography her aftermost breath. Her oldest adolescent was 27 then; her youngest, 12. The Palombo 10 rallied. Again, they weren t about to acquiesce themselves to be separated. From the oldest to the youngest, the ancestors agreed to accession one another. A affair of 10. Anthony is the oldest and belief to be a priest. Frank Jr. is the abandoned affiliated one in the bunch, with three accouchement and now alive alfresco the house. Joe, the third child, is the accountant who helps accumulate anybody on budget. Adolescent No. 4, Maria, is an oncology nurse, apprenticed to advice blight patients afterwards witnessing her mother s decline. She s the mother of the house, accustomed to accession her articulation amidst the cacophony. Tommy, the fifth child, has followed his father s footsteps to become a firefighter and lives with an aunt in the burghal to be afterpiece to his firehouse. The loud adolescent is the sixth, John, who was afresh accustomed into the blaze academy. Patrick serves as the abode chef and has amorphous alive as a baker at an Italian restaurant. No. 8, Daniel, is the aggressive aggressive brother who dominates backyard volleyball and will anon arch off to his apprentice year of college. The aftermost of the boys is Stephen, the ancestors jokester, starting his inferior year of aerial school. The youngest adolescent is Maggie, a aerial academy green with her dad s Brooklyn spunk.Their two-story home is nestled forth a adumbral cul-de-sac in Ridgewood, New Jersey.On a contempo day, Joe, Maria, Tommy and Patrick cast through ancestors photographs at the kitchen table. One shows the 10 of them by themselves at their old Brooklyn home. Addition of baldheaded Dad in his FDNY uniform. Of Dad with a best 1970s mustache. Of Mom with a anesthetic gaze. Of their adolescent parents on their bells day. If we had all separated, we d be a mess, says Maria, now 26. Yeah, Tommy, 24, agrees. I feel like if we were all to aloof go our own ways, I don t know. He pauses, afresh cracks a joke: Who knows what Joey and Maria would be doing? I d apparently still be good. Joe, 27, says he d assignment around-the-clock at an accounting abutting if I didn t accept my ancestors affairs me home. The deaths of his ancestor and mother affected us all in altered ways, he says. Having that bond, no amount how altered we are and how abounding altered personalities we have, I anticipate it keeps us together. Their parents, says 21-year-old Patrick, instilled in us the accent of actuality together, bistro together, praying together. Those three things in particular. And that attitude lives on. Eight of them alive in the five-bedroom home. They confused there in 2006 from Brooklyn for bigger accessible schools. No one is accustomed to beddy-bye in the allowance that became their mother s. The adept bedchamber houses four of the boys, now developed into adolescent men. On Sundays, all 10 accumulate actuality for morning prayer. It s not all serious. They altercate and action and altercate as ancestors tend to do. Every day aback I deathwatch up, Maria says, I apprehend what a phenomenon it is that we re all here. Nobody s befuddled anybody out the window yet. It s absolutely a lot of fun, Joe says. We don t accept parents, so there s a lot of: What would you like to do? Their ancestor acclimated to bawl at the dining table and acknowledge God for absolution him with so abounding children. And actuality they are alarm the tales and acumen of their ancestor and mother, 15 years afterwards 9/11. What would Dad anticipate of it all? He d be crying, says Maria. For sure. The allowance fills with laughter. What s the acceptation of your life? Frank and Jean didn t allotment a love-at-first-sight story. He was the best acquaintance of one of her brothers. She was 9 aback they met; he was 14. But he consistently talked with her, asked how she was doing.A atom grew in her aerial academy years. He had abysmal agreeable amber eyes and the handsome looks of an earlier gentleman; she had beeline chestnut beard and a coy, Hollywood-esque gaze.On her 18th birthday, he came to her and accepted he had able animosity for her and that he capital to date her, says Shelly Hogan, Jean s earlier sister. She was so happy. As a adolescent girl, she had a big drove on him. He was in seminary, belief to become a priest. Their affair afflicted those plans. He switched apparatus and became a New York firefighter in 1979. He and Jean got anchored three years later, in 1982. They aloof absolutely admired one another. It was a admirable relationship. Yet aboriginal on, the adolescent brace struggled. He was a adherent Catholic, alive with the youth. She capital annihilation to do with the church. He capital 12 children. She capital none. She was a appropriate apprenticeship teacher. She hoped to anatomy a appropriate needs academy and be the principal. Those would be her children. With so abundant adversity in the world, she wondered, why would anyone appetite to accompany a adolescent into it? That would anon change. One afternoon in 1985, Frank heard an advertisement at abbey about classes that would analyze the topic, What s the acceptation in your life? He was so confused by the aboriginal session, he came home and begged his wife to attend.She cautiously agreed. This is the aftermost affair I m anytime activity to do in the Catholic Church, she told him.It affronted out to be transformative, as if she d been affected by God. A brace from Italy assured their fourth adolescent was there. They were animated and happy, basking at the ability of giving life. God loves you, the woman told Jean. She wondered: Is article amiss with me? Why can t I adulation like that?The priest s words from that day resonated: Do you think, perhaps, that God is a monster that you do not acquiesce his will to be done in your life? He opened my life, Jean said of that moment.The brace didn t attending back. Knowing that God admired her gave her the backbone to alive her activity — to be free, to not be abashed of the suffering, her babe Maria says. Jean and Frank congenital the foundation for their children s lives. Authoritative money didn t amount to them — admiring activity did. What they couldn t accommodate financially, they fabricated up for in time spent with their kids. Frank wrestled with them. He took them to the firehouse. He played football with them beyond the artery in Prospect Park, cartoon up plays in the ataxia on their bellies. He d bandy passes to Maria. She d reel the brawl in and run for touchdowns. Out of her earshot, he warned his boys: Don t you blow her! During adolescence hockey games, Dad watched from the stands as Tommy and his earlier brother Joe competed on adverse teams. He got formed up aback Joe agape Tommy over. Hey, calm down! Calm down! he shouted. Frank fabricated dinner, too. Pizza, pasta marinara and barbecue were his specialties. He formed with the accouchement on homework. He told them to consistently try their hardest. If you get a B in chic but don t try, afresh I ll be upset. Jean was the adorning blazon who showered her kids with kindness. She was a mother-of-all-trades: She got her 10 kids to and from school, aerated them off to their amateur and practices, absolute in them a able faith. Frank was so alive in the abbey he took a accumulation of adolescent bodies every three years on across missions. While he enjoyed activity into afire barrio to save lives, he said it was added acceptable extenuative a adolescent person s body from abiding flames.At the Dean Artery firehouse, Frank apprehend his Bible and adoration book while others caked their efforts into belief for the lieutenant s test. You re never activity to get answer account the Bible, his adolescent firefighters said.His response: You re never activity to get to heaven account the lieutenant s book. He was accustomed as a beeline shooter. He batten his apperception and wasn t abashed who he ability upset. His chat was so awful admired that he could change a abutment vote aloof by speaking up. He could ve retired with a abounding alimony in 1999. He started a additional job as a handyman instead and acquainted he bare a few added years to body up the business. Jean had accomplished her master s amount and hoped to advise again, to accompany in added income. By September 2001, Frank had his ambition in sight. He planned to retire by the alpha of 2002. Aloof three months to go. I ll consistently advice you On the morning of September 11, 2001, Jean awoke cerebration she was pregnant. Adolescent No. 11 wasn t in her plans. Frank, what are we activity to do, she told her husband. I ll go crazy. Don t anguish about that, he said. But we charge to anticipate of a name. Both laughed. They scurried about the house, accepting the accouchement accessible for school. He helped amount anybody in the car, and she carted them off. Afore they parted, he said, I ll consistently advice you. She would never apprehend her husband s articulation again. Frank larboard with Ladder 105 anon afterwards they got the alarm to arch to the Apple Trade Center. He was about in the south belfry aback the 110-story architecture burst at 9:59 a.m. Six others from his firehouse additionally died.When Jean best up her accouchement from school, she declared what had happened at the accompanying towers. There was a agitator attack. Do you guys apperceive what a agitator advance is? she asked. Maria, afresh 11, mistook the appellation agitator for tourist. Yeah, it s the bodies on 42nd Artery with the cameras, she said.Jean didn t watch the news. Her bedmate had told her to avoid television belletrist and newspapers aback annihilation bad happened involving firefighters — that it would abandoned account disproportionate stress. But by the end of the evening, she sensed the worst. That night, I accepted that article had gone wrong, as he had not alleged and cipher knew area his aggregation was, she told the Italian account bi-weekly Tempi. The abutting morning, she woke anniversary adolescent and told them: They didn t acquisition Dad. She acquainted it important to broadcast the account to anniversary of her accouchement individually, alike her 11-month-old. That was the hardest: Waking up and arrant absurdly with my mom, says Joe, who was 12 at the time. Adds Tommy, who was 9, I didn t alike apperceive what agitation was. I was in fourth grade. The ambit of affections assorted with anniversary child. Tommy told one of his accompany a brace of weeks later, I aloof appetite to be able to say goodbye. Patrick was 6. He hadn t been able to acquisition his shoes the morning of 9/11 and had argued with his dad. He told his ancestor he hated him and never capital to see him again. Then, I never saw him again, Patrick says. That was actual difficult to accord with, and still is. Maria banned to accept her ancestor was asleep for months, alike years. She anticipation maybe a brick hit his head, and he had amnesia. To this day, she has dreams in which he comes aback and we re all affronted at him for actuality gone so long. Amid the family s confusion was an access of love. Bodies who d catholic on abbey adolescence trips with their ancestor accomplished out, adage their dad afflicted their lives. Strangers wrote letters, beatific hand-stitched quilts and gave them envelopes with money. Jim Fassel, afresh the arch drillmaster of the New York Giants, was so confused aback he heard a firefighter larboard abaft 10 accouchement that he gave the Palombos chargeless rein. They got VIP analysis aback they went to practices and games. They already were accustomed on the acreage afore the civic anthem. Aback Tommy didn t put his duke on his heart, Giants brilliant arresting end Michael Strahan smacked him on the arch and told him, Get it together. Abaft bankrupt doors, there was a huge void. In a ancestors congenital on faith, the accouchement questioned, How can God acquiesce this? How can God let us go after a father? A allotment of me died that day, too, says Joe.Tommy says simply, Growing up, Dad was my best friend. My hero. Their mother formed tirelessly. Financially, the ancestors had the abutment of their father s firefighter pension, the 9/11 advantage armamentarium and donations of strangers. It accustomed Jean to focus on her best adored asset — her children.She fabricated abiding whatever doubts her accouchement ability accept about God s adulation were tended to. She alike forgave the terrorists. God s adulation has exceeded this evil, she said.Friends from abbey pitched in. So did firefighters from their father s station. They anchored dinner, afflicted ablaze bulbs, gave the boys rides on the trucks and played football with them at Prospect Park. They alike abutting the Palombos on vacations in the decade that followed. At the Dean Artery firehouse, a canonizing with oak bank now curve a aback wall. It showcases affected images of the men absent that day. Seven jackets adhere on an adjoining wall, including one address the name Palombo on the back. One firehouse byword reads, But my sons accept sons who are as adventurous as their fathers. In the firehouse: a 9/11 legacy Tommy Palombo stands at absorption on a date lined with American flags. It s a moment 15 years in the making. Legacies, they re called. Those sons and daughters who chase the footsteps of fathers and mothers who asleep on the job; 343 firefighters died on 9/11 alone.Tommy was so abutting to his ancestor he was accustomed as his dad s tail, because the boy was consistently appropriate abaft him. If anyone anytime bare Tommy, the ancestors antic was: Find Frank and you can acquisition Tommy. The 9-year-old boy who absent his dad is 24 now, beaming in his FDNY dress dejection on this day in May. The apotheosis of how far the administration has come. A assurance of activation from the tragedy that addled with adverse force. Graduating into the ranks of New York firefighters are 310 men and women — accustomed as probies. They are alleged to the date row by row. The assumption admit anniversary probie for their 18 weeks of adamantine assignment that will aftereffect in a lifetime of sacrifice. Probationary firefighter Thomas Palombo, says Assistant Chief Michael Gala, the emcee of the ceremony.Tommy s appropriate wrist snaps off a address to FDNY Chief James Leonard, and Tommy accomplish forward. Blaze Commissioner Daniel Nigro easily him his diploma.Tommy s cachet as a 9/11 legacy isn t absent on the added than 1,000 bodies aggregate in the auditorium. The army erupts with applause. That s awesome, brother Joe says cautiously in the crowd.This moment is the acme of Tommy s dream: to account his ancestor and to accord aback to the administration that helped his family. That s what I appetite with my life, Tommy says. I appetite to be amidst by guys who were consistently there for us. He is stationed at the firehouse accustomed as the Harlem Hilton. His aboriginal alarm to a blaze came a few weeks later, in the aboriginal hours of Canonizing Day. Bonfire attempt out of a accouterments abundance in the basal of a high-rise architecture in Harlem. Bodies in apartments awash the windows and had to be plucked to assurance by the ladder truck. Tommy was with Engine 69 and had the advance bill position on a hose. His affection raced. In the moment, he didn t anticipate about his father. He had a job to do. The bonfire accomplished added than 25 anxiety in the air. But aback he got aback to the firehouse, he affronted added reflective. How appropriate is this, he thought.His adolescent firefighters will never alter his siblings, but they are allotment of his new continued family. The veterans accepted the new probie at a contempo firehouse cafeteria over heaping bowls of pasta with broiled craven and sausage. The best probie they ve had in years. Eager to learn. A guy who understands the culture. We don t see him any different, says firefighter Mike Davidson. It s just, ya know… When your ancestor was one of the 343 firefighters absent that day, the ya know doesn t charge explanation. Tommy carries on his father s bequest in addition actual absolute way. On his helmet, he wears brand cardinal 10871 — the aforementioned cardinal beat by his dad.A home brims with lifeThe brand waterfalls at the 9/11 Canonizing mark the abode area the accompanying architecture stood. The abiding complete of trickling baptize provides a soothing, peaceful adverse to the abhorrence of that day.The armpit feels about majestic. The names of the about 3,000 men, women and accouchement asleep in the agitator attacks are stencil-cut into brownish parapets surrounding the pools. During the day, you can see through the belletrist and into the baptize below. At night, ablaze brightens the names. The name Frank Anthony Palombo lies on console S-21, adverse the new Freedom Belfry that stretches a division mile into the sky. Twelve afar away, Jean Marie Palombo rests in St. Peter Cemetery in Belleville, New Jersey. The cairn carries the names and images of both bedmate and wife. Not far away, the ancestors home brims with life. The backyard hosts acute 5-on-5 volleyball games. The boys lift in the weight room. At dinner, anybody has their duties, from advancing the meal to accomplishing the dishes. There are signs, of course, of their parents absence: old photographs, their mother s abandoned bedroom. On the piano sits the music to C.D. Gibson s A Added and Her Friends. Daughter Maria finds abundance alive that the adolescent woman who feared accepting accouchement ache in this apple gave them an constant adulation — and the ability that their adversity has fabricated them stronger. That s article our parents anesthetized bottomward to us, she says. When there s suffering, there s joy at the end of it. Together, they overcame.