Parents

 

Richard's cousin, his father and his wife, Mimi Fariña

Dick Farina at age 17 with his mother, Tessie.
© Joe Crozier, used with permission.

Mimi: I don't have instincts about his family — maybe his mother, because she was Irish and believed in ghosts and had premonitions, that might have fed some of his feelings. But I want to give credibility to his fears because they were real

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