John Zambetti's Endless Summer: The Malibooz
Kirk Silsbee, Senior Life, August 2005
MOST OF US HAVE keepsakes from our youth. A toy, a doll, a baseball glove – some 'Rosebud' object that once meant the world to us. So long ago, usually, it seems as though it's from someone else's life. John Zambetti, an E.R. doctor at Kaiser Hospital in Lancaster, has a few of those. Not only did he hang onto them, he never outgrew them.
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