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I was born in Queens, New York in 1970 and lived there until the age of 16 when I moved with my family to Long Island. I attended three different high schools. There was Holy Cross in Bayside, New York, Valley Stream Central in Valley Stream, New York, and Coral Springs High School in Coral Springs, Florida. After finishing high school in Florida, I moved back to New York and completed a year of college at St. Johns University. I then headed back down to Florida, where I lived until 1997. I moved back to New York in 1997 and became an electrician. I now have a wife and two kids (and one on the way) and live in Long Island, New York. My twenty year high school reunion just passed in August, 2008, but regrettably I wasn’t able to attend. I can’t seem to get my head out of the 1980s and my wife is always teasing me to write a book about it. So I did. Every Saturday night, after the children are in bed, my wife and I listen to our local radio station (94.3) where they have a segment from 8 pm until midnight called Flashback Saturday Night. It was my inspiration to write this book. I had never even thought about writing a book before but I felt that someone had to get all this stuff down and preserve it. I hope it worked. Vinny Rigogliosi