In Memory

Gary Morelli



 
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07/20/10 04:15 PM #1    

Susan Rose

I AM SO SORRY I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT GARY.

 

WE WERE GOOD FRIENDS AND I HAVE GREAT MEMORIES.

 

HE WILL BE MISSED.

 

SUE ROSE


06/03/18 09:35 AM #2    

Gail Bederman

I remember Gary Morelli from Elm Place School.  We were both in Mrs. Wills's sixth grade class together.   Gary was always so cool and attractive. I loved his long hair, and the way he brushed it out of his face. I loved the way he walked . He had a little "attitude," which I admired from afair. 

My main memory and regret about Gary Morelli  is about roller skating.  Lots of our class went to the Rec Center to roller skate on Friday nights.  Sometimes, the disc jockey/announcer would say, "Boys ask irls!" and all the girls would sit down, and wait to be invited to skate.   Not being one of the "popular girls," I was never, ever asked.  I didn't mind, because I knew my caste.  

But one night, Gary Morelli skated up to me, and with great, understated charm, asked, "Do you want to skake?"  

I was stunned. I didn't know what to do. I must have spent several second with my mouth hanging open.   It never, ever occurred to me,  that the cool Gary Morelli, with his wonderful bad-boy attitude, seriously wanted me to skate with him. I thought he was making fun of me.    

Then, suddenly, I knew what to say.  "Are you kidding??!" I sneered.  Gary gave me a look, pivoted, and skated away.    I truly believed I did the correct thing, to save my dignity.  Onlly later that night, after I proudly told my appalled parents what I had done, did it occur to me that I had done something really awful--at least on a sixth-grade level. 

I have wanted to apologize to Gary Morelli for the past forty years.  I doubt that this interchange weighed heavily in his life; but it did in mine. He was such a beautiful boy, with such grace. He broke all the social rules (as I understood them) in asking me to skate-- a cool, boy asking a nerd like me!  I suspect he did so out of a kindness not often found in sixth grade boys. So, now, and here, let me finally say,:  "I'm sorry, Gary. And thank you for asking."


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