Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Before Deane started her beautiful B&B in the mid 1980s, she rented out the rooms on the 2nd and 3rd floors of her home. I first moved into her house in January of 1982, not long after her husband Don had passed away, and lived there on and off (mostly on) through 1987, when I enrolled in college. She was truly like a mother figure to me.
I know its been over a decade since you passed, but I just want to say thanks for giving a skinny, naive kid who had just turned 18 year old a chance to strike out on his own. The responsibility I was able to take on, having a job and my own "place" to live that early in my life has lasted me a lifetime. It wouldn't have been possible without you agreeing to take me in as a tenant. Who knows what course my life might have otherwise taken. Rest easy, Deane.
Tony Cristaldi
West Melbourne, FL