JOAN CULLINAN: Memories of
T.M.G.F.
It
was one of those sister things, not easily understood by
the outside world. Joan Cullinan was T.M.G.F. Her sister
Blaise was T.O.G.F. And the third sister, Brenda, was
T.Y.G.F.
The initials could mystify others. But the sisters
knew what they meant: the middle girlfriend, the old
girlfriend and the young girlfriend. The girlfriends ate
oysters together at the Blue Water Grill in Manhattan.
The girlfriends even vacationed together Ð in
Paris.
Throughout her life, Ms. Cullinan, an assistant to the
president at Cantor Fitzgerald who lived in Scarsdale,
N.Y., seemed to have a knack for making a large group of
friends feel as close as sisters.
"She was kind of like a girl's girl, a woman's woman,"
said her husband, Tom. Ms. Cullinan, 47, who had a long
career in business, was in the middle of changing
directions on Sept. 11.
She and her husband were married in the summer of
2000, and they had just begun filling out paperwork to
try to adopt a child from China. She had also sent out
applications to graduate schools to pursue a degree in
clinical social work. "Maybe, one of these days, we'll
get an acceptance letter," Mr. Cullinan said.
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