Hansel and Grethel's father sent the stepmother off into the forest. Little Red Cap took a taxi to Grandma's and she and Grandma ate sweet cakes and had a happy visit. And, at her wedding Snow White danced the night away with the dwarves. I was good at making up endings that pleased me. I could do that for any story. Except one.
"When I was nine, my brother Robbie died. I remember the sadness and silence that filled the house. Nobody spoke of him. Determined never to forget him, I wrote stories and poems about him, but it wasn't until Eighty-Eight Steps to September that I truly came to accept the loss of him."
Puts Feelings Down in Words
It was nearly forty years later that Marino explored this painful time in her life in novel form. After graduating from the Katherine Gibbs School in Boston, she married an artist, with whom she had three children. The family lived on Long Island, and she worked for a number of years as a client coordinator at an investment counseling firm.
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