After seeing him at the Chris Carter series "Millennium", I finally learned his name. When I saw Polito as many other characters, I thought that my favorite was his depiction of a rogue Eddie Scarpino Giannini at episode "Omerta". Immediately afterwards, I sang the house of Polit, looked at his smile and waves, and gave my face a name. There are other famous people in the vicinity. You will see Mike Farrell running around his Harley. Watch Michael Richards ride a bicycle at Ventura Avenue or see Candace Bergen and her dog watching a book with a star in the book. But Polito is the only person who smiles at him and greets him. Even if he is at work, he does this every time I see him. I do not know him except smile and salute, but in a way it always smiles and reminds me of my grandfather who will have a stranger.
Because my connection with Polito is very loose, reading his death has an unusual influence on me. For the time being, he lived in the Studio City community where I lived in the late 1990s. I went for a walk after work and passed the house where he lived. He is often outside the garden, he always waved and said, "Hey, man." We are not based on name. I am convinced that he does not know my name. However, when I walked through his house, he never smiled to me, I said hello and me.
Kristen Polito is a Florida based writer. She has a master's degree in finance and a bachelor's degree in economics from Florida State University at the University of East Carolina. Read her public blog SaltandPepperTheEarth, follow us on Twitter or Facebook, or access the author page