son received a B instead of an A, which earned him a rap on the ears. Elsa Peretti Open Heart bracelet mother was cool and unemotional and provided little relief. "I won three damned governor's races, and she never said a thing about them. She never said, 'How nice.' Never gave me a hug and a kiss," Mario explained to me. Mario's difficult childhood was one of the family's foundational stories--all the kids know it. "My father was literally born on the other side of the tracks," Andrew says, then dissolves into a laugh. They've been through this argument dozens of times, and, for once, Andrew concedes. "The poor neighborhood is a more dramatic
characterization," he says--then with a note of defensiveness adds, "The middle class may be more representative [of voters today]." These days, candidate Cuomo is sensitive to the authenticity of his own urban roots. His Queens may have been middle class, but it "was real," he tells me insistently. "It was real. It was real." The Queens of Andrew's memory--he moved out twenty years ago--Elsa Peretti Teardrop bracelet a place to which the candidate, now a Westchester resident, wants to appeal. "I know the kitchen table in Queens," he says. "I know those people, their faces. I know where they're coming from, what
they're dealing with, and that orientation to people, to values, work, honor, handshake, relationships," ticking off the themes as if they need no explanation. Mario was ostentatiously selfless, devoted to causes greater than himself, which often meant ignoring the needs of those closer to home, a fault for which he berated himself while not doing Return to Tiffany heart tag Charm and bracelet about it. "I can't blame Matilda for being angry at my refusal to make money," Mario wrote in his published diaries, a copy of which sits on Andrew's desk. "She doesn't see it as a commendable effort ... she sees it as selfishness on my part." But the greater hardship was Mario's absence. His old friend and law associate Fabian Palomino recalled for Mario's biographer a conversation from 1975. Mario mentioned that Andrew was graduating from high school. How is Andrew doing? asked Palomino. "You know, I really don't know," Mario replied. "I haven't spent a lot of time with him in the last four years.
I guess I've taken him to two or three ball games. Matilda made me take him." Mario's early childhood was that of an ethnic Elsa Peretti Bean bracelet off in his own enclave--he didn't speak English until school--and it marked him with a deep sense of his own foreignness, a by-product of which was shame. As a young student, Mario hustled to keep his mother and father away from other parents at back-to-school days: "I didn't want them to know that my parents didn't speak English well." Mario worked ferociously, racking up achievements that were supposed to cure the self-hate syndrome, as he later called it. He tied for first in his law-school class, and yet the elite firms didn't call. "Not one interview," he told me, still fuming at what he viewed
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