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Frances & Liza in California

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Flashback Summer of 1985

Daly City, CA. I drove Frances & Liza (and their Tita Myrna) to Daly City after they had stayed at my parents' house. That's where Liza and I met. Frances and I had been classmates in sixth grade in St. Sebastian School in Chicago.

Frances was 18; Liza was 19.

Frances Pacis, their niece, Liza Franco.



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