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Schenectady, NY
Lifestyle
Schenectady Widow, 100, On WWII Love Story She Never Saw Coming —With The Boy She Once Ran From
It's the love story that almost wasn't. At 100 years old, Antoinette “Toni” Cilberti still carries her late husband’s memory with her — especially on Veterans Day, when she's reminded of the wartime letter that started it all. But growing up in Schenectady, Toni didn’t just not like Nicholas Cilberti — she actively tried to avoid him. “His sister Carmel was my best girlfriend, and we lived like maybe two blocks away from each other,” Toni told Daily Voice. “But then when I got into like the senior years, oh my God, he was in his terrible teens… They would get together on the corner an…
Scarsdale, NY
Lifestyle
Strong Women Take Center Stage In New Book By Scarsdale Author
If anyone had asked Falguni Kothari what she wanted to be when she was growing up in Mumbai, she'd never in a million years have said, "an author." "I abhored writing...at least, the school version of it," writes the Scarsdale resident on her website. The mother of two, who's also an award-winning Indian Classical, Latin and Ballroom dancer, admits she always loved stories, especially the ones her grandmother would tell her about women of legend: Women who'd broken the shackles of time, place and culture; women who respected and loved men who respected and loved them in…
