Louis Fersini: Doing Things With
Flair
At
St. John's University, Louis Fersini and his future wife,
Cathy, dated others and saw each other at parties.
"Always in a group," Mrs. Fersini said. "Laughing and
playing."
When the fraternity formal rolled around, Mr. Fersini
suggested they go together and meet up with their
friends. "But first," he said, "how about dinner?"
Mrs. Fersini expected to go to Charley O's for a
hamburger. Instead they went to One if by Land, Two if by
Sea -- romantic, gourmet and expensive. And he sent a
dozen roses beforehand. "I thought of him as a buddy,"
she said. "I guess he had something else in mind."
After, she felt like a girl in an old fashioned
romance. "I sat on the edge of my mother's bed," she
recalled, "and said, `Oh my God.' I was thrilled. I was
only 19 and I'd never been treated like that. But that
was Louie -- everything in his life he did, he did
big."
Like holidays. On Christmas Eve, Mr. Fersini -- a
38-year-old Cantor Fitzgerald trader --- made seafood
stew and stayed up late assembling toys for his four
children. "He played with them more than the kids ever
did," Mrs. Fersini said.
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