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The artist’s favorite uncle, Jack Inciarrano, was a story teller. On that day in 1947, when he took his five year old nephew to visit the Brooklyn Bridge, he had a memorizing tale to tell. He told his young nephew that the Inciarrano family owned the two arches on the Brooklyn side of the bridge. Grandpa, he explained, had purchased them many years before. He also said that he, Jack, had been given the power of attorney over the family’s estate and that when his nephew turned twenty-one, he would transfer the deed of ownership of one of the arches to him. He had his nephew promise not to tell his parents or anyone in the family. It would be their secret. So it came to pass that the arches of the Brooklyn Bridge would join the important icons of Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy during the early childhood years of the artist.