Goodreads asked K.B. Pellegrino:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

K.B. Pellegrino I was invited to a 100 year old’s birthday party at a lack lustre old Italian Club and was jolted to reality. I saw sad situations, and also a wonderful man from Jamaica who was brought to the US during the second world war as labor for the war effort and was promised citizenship. He has worked as a gardener for the last forty years. His family in the US have all passed. He is a force to behold; a reminder that life can be wonderful at all ages; even at 100. He looks seventy eight. -K

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