Columnist Jeri Rowe writes this in today’s News & Record in Greensboro, NC. There is a podcast interview with Jeri at this link with the story; Bruce Springsteen provides a musical opening.

Uncle Tony, originally uploaded by mycousinthesaint.

Here I am with my Uncle Tony and Aunt Phyllis in NJ on May 23. Uncle Tony is one of the stars of Part I of my story. An American soldier during WWII in Sicily, Uncle Tony went AWOL one week to search for an aunt he had never met before. He told me later that finding her was “the first miracle” of Saint Gaetano Catanoso (who wasn’t even a saint at the time!). My brother Len Catanoso took this photo.