their childhoods living in a house right behind the Statue of 2 Liberty. Their family moved to the same small island in New 3 York Harbor as Lady Liberty 75 years ago this summer, not 4 long after their father, also James, became a guard at the 5 statue. 6 When the Bizzaros moved to what's now called Liberty 8 Island in 1937, Paul was 8 and James was 6. 9 "Half of the island was for the visitors. The half that we 10 lived in, we had that whole half to us," says James. 11 "But we were allowed to do whatever we wanted, so we 12 used to go up to the torch," Paul remembers. 13 Notes: "And if you shook enough, the whole arm would shake," 14 James says. 15 The boys shook it once when their mother was walking 16 up. "She never went up again," Paul says. 17 "We used to go on the ferry to go to school, and I 18 remember Sister Alphonsus Marie — she was tough, like a 19 truck driver," James says. "She was mean. But she was 20 always talking about the island, so I invited her to come to 21 the statue, and we climbed the head, and she says, 'Oh!' 22 She says, 'This is the closest I'm going to get to heaven.' 23 But she never treated me any better or any different." 24 In 1944, the family moved back to Brooklyn, where they 25 had lived before moving to the island, though their father 26 still commuted to the statue. 27
2 their childhoods living in a house right behind the Statue of 3 Liberty. Their family moved to the same small island in New 4 York Harbor as Lady Liberty 75 years ago this summer, not 5 long after their father, also James, became a guard at the 6 statue. 8 When the Bizzaros moved to what's now called Liberty 9 Island in 1937, Paul was 8 and James was 6. 10 "Half of the island was for the visitors. The half that we 11 lived in, we had that whole half to us," says James. 12 "But we were allowed to do whatever we wanted, so we 13 used to go up to the torch," Paul remembers. Notes: 14 "And if you shook enough, the whole arm would shake," 15 James says. 16 The boys shook it once when their mother was walking 17 up. "She never went up again," Paul says. 18 "We used to go on the ferry to go to school, and I 19 remember Sister Alphonsus Marie — she was tough, like a 20 truck driver," James says. "She was mean. But she was 21 always talking about the island, so I invited her to come to 22 the statue, and we climbed the head, and she says, 'Oh!' 23 She says, 'This is the closest I'm going to get to heaven.' 24 But she never treated me any better or any different." 25 In 1944, the family moved back to Brooklyn, where they 26 had lived before moving to the island, though their father 27 still commuted to the statue.
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