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Article: ENDLESS LOVE HIS WIFE'S DEATH ONLY DEEPENED ROCKY ABALSAMO'S DEVOTION
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 3, 2000
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Freezing rain beats down on Roque "Rocky" Abalsamo. An umbrella
covers his head, another covers his legs, and plastic bags protect
his boots. Rocky sits for hours, cold and damp in a battered beach
chair.
He is 84 years old, and there is nowhere he would rather be.
For the past seven years, Rocky Abalsamo has spent nearly every
day, all day, at St. Joseph's Cemetery in West Roxbury. Morning until
dark, mourning until dark.
Rocky is there because that is where his wife is. He and Julia
"Julita" Echeverria Abalsamo had been married for 55 years when her
generous heart failed in November 1993.
"She is part of me, so here I am whole," Rocky said recently, his
English carrying the accent of his ...