// Sep 30 2012
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SUNDAY CELEBRATION --
It?s been super busy here, and I didn?t want to forget to get a big congratulations up to Lois Trott and her husband on their 47th wedding anniversary.
Lois and Barbara Trott were the two famous Philadelphia American Bandstand twins who spent their American Bandstand dancing days ? day in and day out ? confusing the hell out of Dick Clark. Ha!
But there is no confusion about the longtime friendships and love relationships they nourished in their families and extended family of fans and friends.
Though as sweeping a generalization as it may appear, perhaps twins ? due to their special closeness ? learn more about how to sustain relationships better than others.
But so many of the American Bandstand Regulars maintained longtime healthy and supportive relationships over a half a century: Justine Carrelli and Bob Clayton; Joyce Shafer, Marlyn Brown and Diane Iaquinto; Eddie Kelly and Carmen and Ivette Jimenez; Frankie Levins and Larry Brumbach; Barbara Marcen, Bobbi Young, Little Ro; Rosalie Beltrante and Terri Schreffler; Arlene Sullivan and Kenny Rossi;?. Frank Brancaccio and too many to mention. And before they passed, Norman Kerr and Myrna Horowitz with Joyce Shafer, Richie Cartledge and Bobby Baritz, Betty Romantini with Joe Fusco, Billy Cook and Pat Molittieri and so on and so forth.
Being inside the community and being invited into their personal lives, has been a gift I will always cherish.
And the extension of that group are all the fans and friends of Bandstand?s Best where we have the largest gathering of American Bandstand Regulars and fans in the Cyber-World today and in just more than a tenth of a decade; however, my friendships with the Bandstand community had been forming for many years prior.
Bandstand?s Best is the best medicine there is for curing the Bandstand blues. There is not a bad apple among the Bandstand bunch here in the magical kingdom. It fell off the Bandstand tree way back when.
On a philosophical note. Jealousy and envy are killers when it comes to communication and friendship; and competition is about the game and not about the winning; and egos are fine when they enhance personal fortitude and confidence, but not when they become for the greater part self-serving.
I think the above quotes were mine ? though they may have been Ren? Descartes, Jean-Paul Sartre, or Francois Rabelais?. It was one of us. 
Ciao for now?..
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