Post by Francesca Limoli on Jun 15, 2008 17:23:35 GMT -5
la famille de limoli
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Frank Limoli - 50, executive chef || Lila Limoli - 49, interior designer
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Jared Limoli - 20, prelaw, Columbia || Francesca Limoli - 17, Lordings senior
Frank Limoli grew up in Geneva, Switzerland. He comes from a well - to - do family that had moved from Italy to Switzerland a few generations back. Frank had three brothers and two sisters. Both of his sisters went on to become lawyers, one on Bern and the other in Berlin, Germany. Frank was the oldest of his siblings. His youngest brother died when Frank was fifteen; the brother was seven at the time. The eldest of the remaining two brothers became a film critic and stayed in Geneva, while the younger moved to London and went in to politics. Frank himself finished his high school degree at the American School, and decided to take a job as a sous chef at a local restaurant instead of going to college right away. Taking a few years off of school eventually led to never going to college, but Frank doesn't regret it. As a young man in Switzerland, he loved to cook and dreamed of one day owning his own restaurant.
Lila Sacco was born into a wealthy New York family. She was the only child of divorced parents. Her father was a criminal justice attorney and her mother was a retired film director who spent her time organizing charity events. Lila went to boarding school at Taft, in Massachusetts, and then went on to university at the Rhode Island School of Design, with a major in interior design.
The year after she graduated from RISD, Lila and two friends decided to take a year off and backpack through Europe before they settled down and got real jobs. They started in Spain, hiked the Pyrenees, moved through France, part of Germany, Austria, and had reached Switzerland when one of Lila's friends got a call from a relative who was in Geneva. The trio decided to make a detour, enjoying a night in a hotel with showers and a real restaurant. This is where Frank and Lila met, as Frank was working as a sous chef in the hotel restaurant. After meeting Frank, Lila decided to remain in Geneva, instead of continuing on to Prague, as was her original plan. Lila found work easily in Geneva, and she and Frank quickly fell in love. They were married in September of that year, and found a cozy house just outside of the city together.
Two years later, the couple had their first child, Jared Limoli. The small family was happy, enough so that they wanted a second addition, so two years later, along came Francesca. Unlike many brother - sister duos of the same age difference, Francesca and Jared were close from the beginning. Francesca was something of a tomboy for the beginning of her childhood, as she spent most of her time with her older brother. According to her mother's wishes, the children were raised bilingual, speaking French and English. When Fran was five, the family moved to Paris, France, where her father had gotten a new job.
This is where Francesca truly grew up, and where she discovered her love of film. It all started when she was seven, and first looked at the famous Robert Doisneau photograph, The Kiss. She begged her father for a camera, and he obliged. Fran spent the next few years taking pictures of anything that would stay still long enough. When she was ten, she first watched Le Ballon Rouge, and fell completely and irrevocably in love with cinema.
Unfortunately, Francesca was not to pursue her passion in Europe; both her mother and her father had found excellent jobs again, this time in Roanoke Valley, United States. Fran was fifteen when the family moved to the States, just beginning to study for her Bac exam. She resisted moving to America at first, but eventually decided that it would be better to just go along with it. When given the choice between Lucy Madison High and Lording's Academy, Fran chose Lordings almost without a thought. It was the place where she could pursue her love of cinema, and it would help her get in to a good university.
Fran's original plan was to apply for uni back in France, but with a school system no longer teaching to the Bac, this proved to be a very difficult quest. When Jared decided to attend college at Columbia, in New York City, Fran began to look at colleges in the States. If it was good enough for her brother, she figured, it was good enough for her. That's how she discovered NYU's study abroad program, as well as it's film program. Her new goal is to go to NYU and spend a year studying back in Paris.
She likes Lording's alright; Fran has her friends and generally enjoys her classes. She's excited to graduate this year, though; it feels like she's been in high school for just about ever. And she's also excited to be living closer to her brother again; they both had a rather hard time adjusting to not being able to see each other every day. Fran still sometimes steals hos clothes - the ones he left at home, anyway. He's her best friend, and she misses him dearly.
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Frank Limoli - 50, executive chef || Lila Limoli - 49, interior designer
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Jared Limoli - 20, prelaw, Columbia || Francesca Limoli - 17, Lordings senior
Frank Limoli grew up in Geneva, Switzerland. He comes from a well - to - do family that had moved from Italy to Switzerland a few generations back. Frank had three brothers and two sisters. Both of his sisters went on to become lawyers, one on Bern and the other in Berlin, Germany. Frank was the oldest of his siblings. His youngest brother died when Frank was fifteen; the brother was seven at the time. The eldest of the remaining two brothers became a film critic and stayed in Geneva, while the younger moved to London and went in to politics. Frank himself finished his high school degree at the American School, and decided to take a job as a sous chef at a local restaurant instead of going to college right away. Taking a few years off of school eventually led to never going to college, but Frank doesn't regret it. As a young man in Switzerland, he loved to cook and dreamed of one day owning his own restaurant.
Lila Sacco was born into a wealthy New York family. She was the only child of divorced parents. Her father was a criminal justice attorney and her mother was a retired film director who spent her time organizing charity events. Lila went to boarding school at Taft, in Massachusetts, and then went on to university at the Rhode Island School of Design, with a major in interior design.
The year after she graduated from RISD, Lila and two friends decided to take a year off and backpack through Europe before they settled down and got real jobs. They started in Spain, hiked the Pyrenees, moved through France, part of Germany, Austria, and had reached Switzerland when one of Lila's friends got a call from a relative who was in Geneva. The trio decided to make a detour, enjoying a night in a hotel with showers and a real restaurant. This is where Frank and Lila met, as Frank was working as a sous chef in the hotel restaurant. After meeting Frank, Lila decided to remain in Geneva, instead of continuing on to Prague, as was her original plan. Lila found work easily in Geneva, and she and Frank quickly fell in love. They were married in September of that year, and found a cozy house just outside of the city together.
Two years later, the couple had their first child, Jared Limoli. The small family was happy, enough so that they wanted a second addition, so two years later, along came Francesca. Unlike many brother - sister duos of the same age difference, Francesca and Jared were close from the beginning. Francesca was something of a tomboy for the beginning of her childhood, as she spent most of her time with her older brother. According to her mother's wishes, the children were raised bilingual, speaking French and English. When Fran was five, the family moved to Paris, France, where her father had gotten a new job.
This is where Francesca truly grew up, and where she discovered her love of film. It all started when she was seven, and first looked at the famous Robert Doisneau photograph, The Kiss. She begged her father for a camera, and he obliged. Fran spent the next few years taking pictures of anything that would stay still long enough. When she was ten, she first watched Le Ballon Rouge, and fell completely and irrevocably in love with cinema.
Unfortunately, Francesca was not to pursue her passion in Europe; both her mother and her father had found excellent jobs again, this time in Roanoke Valley, United States. Fran was fifteen when the family moved to the States, just beginning to study for her Bac exam. She resisted moving to America at first, but eventually decided that it would be better to just go along with it. When given the choice between Lucy Madison High and Lording's Academy, Fran chose Lordings almost without a thought. It was the place where she could pursue her love of cinema, and it would help her get in to a good university.
Fran's original plan was to apply for uni back in France, but with a school system no longer teaching to the Bac, this proved to be a very difficult quest. When Jared decided to attend college at Columbia, in New York City, Fran began to look at colleges in the States. If it was good enough for her brother, she figured, it was good enough for her. That's how she discovered NYU's study abroad program, as well as it's film program. Her new goal is to go to NYU and spend a year studying back in Paris.
She likes Lording's alright; Fran has her friends and generally enjoys her classes. She's excited to graduate this year, though; it feels like she's been in high school for just about ever. And she's also excited to be living closer to her brother again; they both had a rather hard time adjusting to not being able to see each other every day. Fran still sometimes steals hos clothes - the ones he left at home, anyway. He's her best friend, and she misses him dearly.