Beck Bellelo Short Story

Beck Bellelo is a simple woman with an extraordinary life. She had great fortune, but bad things seem to always happen to the best people. Becky’s story shows how you can live a normal healthy life among friends, but no matter how long you’ve lived everything can drastically change. New scary, or exciting things can sneak up on you out of the blue and affect your life forever. As a child Becky had an old-fashioned upbringing. Her family valued manners, language, hard work and discipline. Her parents owned a beauty salon and her mom was a hair dresser. They ran the business out of their house in Thibodaux. The salon was connected to the house, so they lived in their growing up while all the ladies getting their hair done gossiped. She attended Mount Carmel all-girls school in Thibodaux. Along with her two older sisters Beth Maniscalco and Virginia Guidry. Becky got a lot of love and attention being the youngest of the children. Her most memorable teacher in grade school was Mrs. Ackerman because Becky said “she was an absolute grammar and vocabulary Nazi.” Her habits have lived on through Becky who has developed the same tendencies. Becky married Charlie Bellelo when she was in her mid-twenties. She had two sons, Chris and Rene, who both have children of their own now. During her career working in administration at a few schools she met lifelong

She visits family and relaxes around her house with her husband. It is almost as if nothing has changed from before she had her surgery. I see her occasionally when she visits Beth, her sister and my grandmother, at family gatherings and on holidays. She told me that she never forgets what happened to her heart and what she had to go through because it made her stronger and it made her value the importance of family and she is grateful for every breath God has given her. Everything can change in a split-second, so never get to comfortable with how your life is