Cono Gallo: Ocho Rios
Memories
A
grand time is the only way to describe Cono Gallo's
Jamaican vacation with his wife the week before the World
Trade Center attack. There the two were, holding hands
while climbing Dunn's River Falls in Ocho Rios. A reggae
dancing contest? Mr. Gallo went at it solo, and was the
runner-up.
The Gallos, both 30-year-olds from Maspeth, Queens,
clinched a "Newlywed Game"-like couples contest at their
vacation resort by giving the same correct answer to
every question. (The two had been married for five
years.)
What's your wife's bra size? Mr. Gallo, the
contestant, was asked. "Usually a 38C," he answered, "but
sometimes a 36D depending on the style of the bra."
"It was exactly right," said his wife, Vicki
Nita-Gallo, a kindergarten teacher. "He had the audience
hysterical. They thought it was so cute. He really paid
attention to details. That's what is so fabulous about
him."
Mr. Gallo, a commodities broker with Carr Futures at 1
World Trade Center, was caring and selfless, his wife
said, and he believed in a true partnership. There he
was, "always by my side" when she was sick, she said. And
there he was again, helping out with with her Avon side
business.
On the eve of Sept. 11, Mrs. Nita-Gallo left a bag
full of Avon hand lotion, lip gloss and other products by
the door for him to take to her customers at his office.
The next morning, Mr. Gallo, who started work at 7:30
a.m. and left the house while she was still in bed,
picked it up on his way out, happy to distribute the
orders and collect payment.
"Everything was teamwork so we could go out and enjoy
ourselves," Mrs. Nita-Gallo said. "We completed each
other."
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