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Phil planting cosmos for Anne · Creatures of the Wind

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  SPEAKER_00: So tell me a little bit about who you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, my name is Phil Gagliano and I grew up in Chicago.
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  SPEAKER_00: I lived there for 50 years and right now I'm just working in the yard and I'm planting some cosmos for my wife.
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  SPEAKER_00: She passed away six years ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: And every year at around Mother's Day, I plan on planting Cosmos because that was her favorite flower.
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  SPEAKER_00: What was she like?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, she was a beautiful woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: I miss her a lot.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: She's very special.
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  SPEAKER_00: I fell in love with her the first time I saw her.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was love at first sight.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she felt the same way about me.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: Right now I was actually thinking about her when you came up, that she was with me helping me plant flowers.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: Her name was Ann Dam.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: So she was uh an artist who welded metal pieces and made sense out of them.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: I have an incredible place in the house.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you want to go in there and look at it, but yeah, well, it's up to you.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I would like to if you have time for it.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I have all the time in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: My house is a little messy because I live by myself.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm glad you came over.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: I needed a break.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna be 83 in December.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: This piece here was done by my wife.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: It's a duck and a unicycle, so it's called Unaduck.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's what she called it.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: Did you guys meet in Beulah?
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was I was living in Chicago at the time when I came up here.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: I was came up here on vacation, and uh I just happened to drive past uh that sign that said uh welcome to Beulah on beautiful Crystal Lake, and I figured, well, you know, that sounds interesting.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: So I pulled over, and the art gallery is next door to this building here, and the doors were open, and there was this beautiful metal fish hanging in the doorway.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: So I said, Well, heck, you know, I'm gonna pull over, stretch my legs, and look at some art because it said uh Ice House Gallery.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: So I walked in, and there was Anne.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: She was reading an article about Wicker Park in Chicago.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I says, So uh you're reading an article about Wicker Park?
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: She says, Yeah.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: I says, Well, I I go to Wicker Park just about every weekend to have breakfast.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: She goes, No kidding.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Yeah.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I says, you know, someday I would like to uh, you know, move out of Chicago, although I love Chicago.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: I just want to move out of Chicago and maybe open up a little cafe somewhere out in the country.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: She says, that's funny that you should say that because that's what I would like to do.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I says, well, if you were gonna do it, where would it be?
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: And she points to this building.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: She says, I would put it there.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: So I decided to sell my condo in Chicago and take the profit and and the money and build out this place.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we opened we opened up Cafe Bravo in 1996.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't believe you moved all the way out here because of love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why not?
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: That's what it's all about.