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Friday, May 25, 2012

229. Peripatetic


From, “The Vows Column at 20,” by Lois Smith Brady, 5/18/12, The New York Times:

At the time of their wedding, Ms. Irwin, then 29, and Mr. Liotta-Mangio, then 50, were a free-spirited artistic couple who lived on a houseboat in the 79th Street Boat Basin in Manhattan. They seemed too bohemian for marriage; I figured they would drift apart sooner rather than later.
Ms. Irwin, then a record promoter, said the boat basin “was the closest thing I could find to a hippie commune in New York.” Mr. Liotta-Mangio was a peripatetic, handsome, charming Sicilian guitarist. How long do they ever stick around? As it turns out, he stuck around forever. Well, almost.

Peripatetic: one who walks from place to place; an itinerant

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