A Love Story from @JohnFugelsang
Actor and comedian John Fugelsang shares the remarkable story of how his parents...a monk and a nun...met, fell in love, and went on to raise a family.
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My father Jack grew up in Flatbush Brooklyn; when he joined the Franciscans his name became Brother Boniface. http://twitpic.com/5zvkvb -
As a Franciscan my dad taught history to Catholic boys & walked amongst the people like the Lost Jedi of Flatbush. http://twitpic.com/5zwc73
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My father fell in love with a southern nun who worked as a nurse in bklyn & secretly carried a torch for 10 years. http://twitpic.com/5zx5u4
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The nun/nurse he loved was sent to work w/lepers in Malawi; He couldn't reveal feelings but wrote her every week. http://twitpic.com/5zyadj
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Every week he'd write Sister Damien in Africa with the news abt America - Dr. King, Civil Rights, Vietnam.... http://twitpic.com/5zyb8y
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Eventually his superior in the Franciscan Brothers figured it out & said 'If you love her, marry her.' http://twitpic.com/5zybot
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After 10 years he confessed his love; she left the convent & they were married 2 mos later on a southern Army base http://twitpic.com/5zyp23
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They thought they should delay the wedding, but her sister said 'it's going to be a scandal anyway, so why wait?' http://twitpic.com/5zyqms
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At 1st her mom was horrified she'd marry a yankee from brooklyn. 'I won't be able to understand a thing he says.' http://twitpic.com/600cd9
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They married 2 months after she left the convent. It was a first love, and 2nd marriage, for them both. http://twitpic.com/600edq
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For her 16 years of poverty, chastity & obedience the church thanked her with one grey cotton dress & $200. http://twitpic.com/600f3p
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Southern ladies & the northern groom's car. http://twitpic.com/600gea
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my father was liberal; his brother, conservative. They disagreed on everything & loved each other unconditionally. http://twitpic.com/600ify
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my father the brother & my mother the sister, post-vow breaking. http://twitpic.com/600sj9
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They settled in Bohemia, Long Island; aka The Most Ironically Named Town In America. http://twitpic.com/600tnz
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'I always felt like after I left the clergy & got married my faith actually got deeper.' http://twitpic.com/600zcn
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The week before he turned 70 my dad has his 2nd heart attack & Dr.s said there was nothing they could do. http://twitpic.com/601mwc
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My Dad heard about a joint Israeli-Thai stem cell treatment in Thailand, using one's own stem cells from blood. http://twitpic.com/601qka
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My Catholic dad put his faith in the Buddhists & the Jews, & traveled to Bangkok b/c he wanted more time with her. http://twitpic.com/601rje
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He could no longer walk & my mother took him to Thailand in a wheelchair, for treatment still illegal in the US. http://twitpic.com/601smr
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He returned from Stem Cell Treatment still not available in US b/c someone thinks it's against the Bible. I think. http://twitpic.com/6023z3
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...within months he was walking again & took my mom on their 1st cruise. This was taken 2 yrs later, in Hollywood. http://twitpic.com/602800
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The same love that brought him out of the clergy kept him alive longer than any of the doctors predicted.... http://twitpic.com/602s0o
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C'mon, let Dad speak as part of the ceremony. What's the worst that could happen? http://twitpic.com/602vmh
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Once on Bill Maher's show I offered hot gay sex to Klansman David Duke. Funny, & dad forgave me after a few weeks. http://twitpic.com/603455
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