Prisoner Of Love

About the Book

This story begins in 1945, with how I first met My Love. She was only 15, and I was 17 years old. It's a story about how we met, and how a song had a profound effect on our lives. It is also about how our undying love for each other survived the many obstacles we endured in our early years. We had an unusual start, some touching moments, and a very emotional and somewhat surprising ending. These memories are too precious not to be shared.

About the Author

Eugene Fagnano, eighty-four years old. Born in Niles, Ohio; grew up in Fairview, N.J. Married to his wife Edna for sixty-one years. They have two married daughters, Debbie and Cindy, six grandchildren Emma, Eugene, Sara, Amy, Sam, and Luke. It was during his last few years of high school, while employed at a White Castle that he met his future wife, Edna. Upon graduation, he enlisted in the US Army for a year and a half. After being discharged, he was admitted into the New York Newspapers Pressmen’s Union. Worked as an apprentice at Alco Gravure, Hoboken, N.J. for fourteen years, then as a pressman for the New York Times for thirty-two more years for a total of forty-six years, when he then retired as pressroom foreman. He is a musician, plays trumpet, is a member of the musicians union, also an artist, belongs to several local art clubs. Active in politics, he was elected to four terms as a councilman. He was appointed as a commissioner to the Bergen County Housing Authority, served twenty years, ten as chairman. He is an active parishioner in his church, a trustee, and finance chairman. His hobbies are music and art. He has a large collection of records from jazz to opera. He still enjoys painting and playing his trumpet. This is his first effort at writing.