Rosemarie Sere was born in Brooklyn, New York, September 30 th , 1937.
Her second life began and she turned toward writing..
This was a turning point for many reasons both personally and professionally for Rosemarie.
She left Citibank and went to work for the NYC Board of Education, as a teacher\'s assistant.
Shortly thereafter, she learned that as a female manager her pay was substantially less than her male counterparts.
As a Teller at the bank, she was efficient and smart, and was soon promoted to Manager.
When her youngest child started school, she started part-time work for Citibank.
She did the foraging, scrimping, saving, cooking, cleaning, and a bit of hair styling and coloring, whenever she could.
She raised her four children, they lost their first son shortly after his birth.
Nothing could be further from her mind than becoming an author.
They had five children together.
Their first daughter was born in 1957.
Sere worked as a beautician until she married her husband, Alexander Torla, and left Brooklyn to join him as a Navy wife, in Pensacola Florida.
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Life was simple back then.
The Salon, called Buscemi\'s, was a block from her home on Ditmas Avenue.
She applied to the Home Making School and graduated with a certificate in Cosmetology; she secured a position with the beauty salon her mother went to for her perms.
She worked at Kresge\'s Five and Dime as a young teenager but had dreams of becoming a beautician.
She was not inclined toward academia.
Rosemarie attended Erasmus Hall High School for about six months.
By many standards, she was considered to have been born into the middle class.
Like all early immigrants, they were hard working, ambitious and glad to be in America.
Her mother stayed home to raise the four children and did the foraging, scrimping, and saving, cooking, cleaning, and odd jobs whenever she could.
Her father joined a guild after leaving the fourth grade and became a draftsman for the Otis elevator company.
She is the daughter of third generation Italian Americans.
Rosemarie Sere was born in Brooklyn, New York, September 30 th , 1937
