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    Green Streak 396
    Green Streak 396
    Green Streak 396
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    Green Streak 396

    By Hank Curci

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    Mario Santini, a naïve young, 18 year old American sailor, from a very staunch Catholic Italian family falls in love with a beautiful, black, 19 year old prostitute, all of which is taking place in the white bible belt, pre-Martin Luther King south ( Norfolk, Virginia ) circa early 1950's.

    This stunning lady of the night ( named Bahama Mamma by the Fleet ) tries everything to discourage the relentless and annoying pursuit of a love sick sailor but to no avail, he is not going to go away.

    She finally gives in and they start dating to find that each has something to give that the other one doesn't have Mario love and warmth from a large Italian family and she, ghetto raised Christina Watson, survival on the streets.

    This racially charged togetherness survives leading to a fun, and heart warming romantic comedy....LOVE CONQUERS ALL.

    Green Streak 396 is a taxicab owned and driven by street wise African American 40 year old Moses Cotton, Christina Watson's faithful companion, chauffer and confidant who makes all her appointments and drives her to places of business.

    Moses Cotton is hopelessly in love with this beautiful 19 year old lady but alas, his love is not returned but he remains faithful to her in spite of all her sorted endeavors.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHank Curci
    Release dateApr 2, 2014
    ISBN9780975919910
    Green Streak 396
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    Hank Curci

    Hank Curci Holds a Masters Degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and is a former Senior Aerospace Engineer designing Inertial Navigation and spacecraft rendezvous points between Earth and Mars...his friends called him "The real Captain Kirk" Hank Curci is also a concert pianist giving Cole Porter, Gershwin and Broadway show tune concerts in the Seattle area and also Stanford University. His songs are being played on the international radio circuit and can be purchased on iTunes. Hank Curci is the creator of www.spacenoodles.com free outer space greeting cards and writes a daily outer space blog on www.hcurci.wordpres.com. Hank Curci has six ebooks published on the internet..two SCIFI short stories, one romantic comedy, and three Children's Outer Space Coloring Books.

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      Green Streak 396 - Hank Curci

      GREEN STREAK 396

      and her

      ALMOST WHITE BOY

      BY HANK CURCI

      Copyright 2014 Hank Curci

      Smashwords Edition

      Standard Address Number

      SAN 256-1948

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      JOINING THE NAVY

      THE SOCIAL EXCHANGE and LEARNING TO PLAY CHESS

      KARATE SWEETHEART

      PROM NIGHT

      MARIO BECOMES A DAD

      A SAD GOOD BYE

      THE UNFLAPPABLE MOSES

      TWENTY YEARS LATER

      BAHAMA MAMA IS DEAD

      EPILOGUE

      Joining the Navy

      When Mario Santini was young, 18 and in the Navy, the surrounding sailors made fun of him because he didn’t drink, not even beer or wine. His big deal was a coke and a stimulating evening at Norfolk’s leading roller-skating rink.

      What the Navy men didn’t know, while they drank themselves to oblivion, in some cheap main street gin mill, was that SKINNY GUINEA (making reference to his Italian heritage and 150 pound frame) as they called him, was dating the most gorgeous Norfolk high school girls.

      Mario Santini, although only a teenager himself, became street-smart self-reliant.

      It was time to free himself from Old World Italian values governed by repressive ethnic Catholicism.

      He quit high school in his sophomore year and joined the Navy much to the objections of family members who thought he would amount to nothing without a high school diploma.

      However, Mario surprised them all and finished high school through Navy correspondence courses, came home on leave, and graduated with his old class.

      He insisted on wearing his formal Navy dress uniform rather than the traditional cap and gown when he received his diploma.

      Taking advantage of the G.I. Bill, Mario went on to receive a Masters Degree in business (MBA) from a major university. He later put together his own lucrative stock market brokerage firm.

      In addition to Mario’s intelligence, he was also quite good looking.

      Mario was five-feet-ten-inches tall, weighed about 150 pounds and had that movie-star, Latin-lover look.

      He would have attracted the attention of central casting in any major movie studio.

      These dashing qualities made him popular with the prep-schoolgirls, much to the chagrin of their parents.

      The general thought that Norfolk parents had towards sailors in those days was that all sailors were irresponsible cads bent on de-flowering their daughters

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