Gloria Del Bianco (GDB): I remember when he got older, he had dust in the lungs from carving, and he would have to go to the hospital. And they’d have to put my father on the stretcher because he couldn't breathe. He'd stop them. "Just a minute he used to say to the guy, just a minute." He wanted his slippers, and he wasn’t leaving until he had them. And my brother Vincent would go to pick him up, and the lady at the hospital would say, "Mr. Del Bianco's not here, he left." My brother would say, "What do you mean he left? He wasn't discharged." "Oh well that doesn't matter, your father, when he's ready to leave he just got up and left, that was it."

Lou Del Bianco (LDB): (laughs)

GDB: And they did an autopsy on my father, and they looked at his lungs. And the doctors were amazed that he lived as long as he lived, because the dust in his lungs was like a rock.

LDB: I remember him leani...
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