From Holding Tight To letting Go

About the Book

The Poetry book reflects the six years of marriage and Love between husband and wife the joy, happiness and sorrow at the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease and 3 years of symptoms, episodes and continuing support and love, and subsequent nursing home confinement for Susan’s husband Bob and his death and her grief afterwards.

About the Author

Susan Torricellas is a 76 year old widow, one of six siblings who grew up in Western Pa, Altoona. She has been writing poetry since her teen years and also published freelance stories in the Chester County press and the compass section of the Wilmington News Journal. A poem was published in Sunshine magazine and a story of a vegetarian in County line Magazine. Recently she had a short article published in Lancaster County Magazine where she resides, titled “What I love about living in Lancaster County” She met her husband Bob at a bereavement support group after they had both lost spouses a few years before. She still lives in their home in Peach Bottom Pa,near the Amish and surrounded by nature. Here is where she writes her poems of personal experiences, family and nature. Susan has one married son and five Grandchildren.