Dot Campi (DC): A friend that I work with said to me "Oh Dot you gotta meet this
great guy, just recently widowed and he's lonely...' And I said 'Okay.'

And so we met. And I don't know how it came about but he said he was
looking for a mother for his 5 kids. I said 'Don't look at me, what do
I want with 5 more kids.' But I fell hard and deep. And several people
said to me 'You're marrying this guy and he has 5 kids, what are you
crazy?' And I said 'Well I love him so much, I'll learn to love those
kids.' And then as the marriage progressed I used to tell him quite
often, 'You know Ronnie, you're lucky you had these kids cause I never
would have stayed here without them.'

Kim Campi (KC): Do you remember when you first met me?

DC: Yes, and I don't know if you'll remember this but you and David used
to call me lady. It was 'lady. Lady.' And one of the cutest things is
that you used to say: 'You know lady, my mother had red shoes.' Do you
remember that Kim?'

KC: I do remember that.

DC: And so we have the five Campi kids, I had one daughter and then we
had three together. And I remember always saying I want to be a mother
not a stepmother. So that's why we didn't say, 'Well that's your Mom
and that's your Dad. You know, it's this is my brother this is my
sister, this is my mother and this is my father.' And just recently
someone said to me that they love coming to my house and looking at
those nine pictures over the piano. And they would say 'Which one is
yours, which ones are Ronnie's, and which ones are the ones you had
together? And I gotta tell you a lot of people don't know where one
family starts and the other one ends.

KC: um huh.

DC: And you know, I wish I could have made my first marriage a success.
But when I think about that I think gee all I would have is Mona. And
look what I have now.