Gentile 3 After high school she started at CCRI for accounting. A year or two later she landed a job at a local bank and decided to stop taking classes, “I figured, well I have this good job at the bank nove don't need to finish schoo!” (Restelli). She was atthe bank until she had her youngest, Josh who is 14 now. She stayed at home until he was, in Yindergarten, then became a parent liaison for Westerly, Currently, she works at Richmond Elementary school as a Kenaereren TA, “I like it, like working with the younger kids” (Restelli). Whearasked {she'd ever go back to school she said “Yes I think about it, 1 don’t know what I'd go for” with a chuckle she added “see I’m still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up” (Restelli). m v\ 3 No a dgys Gilda keeps in contact with her New York friends through facebook as wo > ays Ky they've all moved to different states. “It's funny because whey i iprew Up we all wanted to be somewhere else and here it seems everyone wants to stay in\pdatrty" (Rest, It was soon — / Ppordliy, J clear that statement didn’t quite apply to Gilda. For her, New York will always be home. A few times a year she visits with her kids. Often visiting her closest friend, Lisa whi she met in a rather unusual way, at the grocery store in Westerly. Soon their daughters started preschool together but Lisa moved to New York before they started Kindergarten, Now, Bryanna and Gilda travel to their house a few times a year to visit. Gilda brings Bryanna and Josh to see the tree in Rockefeller and Bopping in Times Square every year, “I grew up doing those things with my ‘mom so T want them to be able to do that too” (Restelli). For love she moved to Wester \ truly she belongs in New York. Whetrasked about moving back to New York she didn’t on i hesitating answering with “Oh in a heartbeat, I love it, even when I see that New York sign Tm like ah I'm home” (Restelli). With a sparkle in her eye and a grin on her face she spoke of her home, New York, of her love for the energy and lights,