Friday, December 25, 2020
THIS IS A TRUE STORY ABOUT THE BIRTH OF TOM PASSERELLO AND HIS COUSIN JACK PASSERELLO AND THE HOSPITAL BILL THAT WAS FOR THE HOSPITAL STAY FOR JACKS MOTHER.
THE STORY IS WRITTEN IN JACKS BOOK THAT IS TITLED " 5 POUNDS OF CHOCOLATES "
THE STORY IS ON PAGE 398 OF THE BOOK AND HAS THE PICTURE OF THE ACTUAL HOSPITAL BILL.
-----------A VERY FOND MEMORY OF TWO COUSINS.
----------JACK PASSERELLO
The Hospital Bed Bill
In the middle of the great American depression, on December 6, 1934, I, Jack Passerello, was born in Somerset Hospital in Somerville, New Jersey. My mother, Lottie Passerello, left Somerset Hospital with her son (me) on December 13, 1934. On that same day (December 13, 1934), Mrs. Tom Passerello (Genive) was admitted to the same hospital. She was put into the same bed that Lottie Passerello had just vacated after giving birth to her baby boy, Jack Passerello. Three days later, Genive Passerello gave birth to a son, Tom Passerello. Two Passerello woman had occupied the same bed in the maternity ward and given birth there to a boy, ten days apart. So Tom Passerello and Jack Passerello were destined to be soulmates from the very beginning of their lives. I still have the original bill from the hospital. $27.65 for seven days total. Tom’s mom, Genive, probably got a bill for almost the same amount from the same hospital. Kids were cheap and life was good.
