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Marc Asnin: 27 Years with Uncle Charlie by Lorraine Calvacca
It's not unusual for a child to put an adult on a pedestal, from which that person must inevitably tumble, but few have probably fallen as far as Marc Asnin's Uncle Charlie.
In Asnin's childhood memory, his favorite uncle was a tough, muscular, tattooed guy with a gun -- someone to look up to in Bushwick, Brooklyn in the '60s.
What he saw through his 18-year-old eyes was an anorexic, catatonic shut-in.
Rather than turn and flee, Asnin says he was "inspired to confront and deal" with this shockingly diminished man -- his mother's brother -- to whom he had the storied connection of godchild.
Lorraine Calvacca
