'I Did Everything
In My Lifetime'
BY JENNA BAGCAL
George Moscatello, 93 and Milady
Uceta, 67 met in 1983 while riding
the 7 train in Queens. They wound
up spending more than three decades
together when, in 2016, Moscatello
popped the question to her while out
for dinner.
Uceta said yes and asked if they
could marry in Israel, a place she has
always wanted to visit. But soon after,
Moscatello's health began failing, and
they chose to postpone the wedding.
Now in hospice care while living
in their Woodside apartment, however,
Moscatello wanted the chance
to marry the love of his life while he
still had the chance. On May 31, with
the help of the professionals caring
for him, they finally tied the knot in
an intimate ceremony at their home.
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Moscatello — a former singer and a
war veteran — is currently a patient of
Hospice of New York, located at 45-
18 Court Square in Long Island City.
He and Uceta declined to discuss the
specifics of his condition.
Their story began in 1983 when
the two were taking the 7 train, and a
chance encounter brought the Bronxborn
veteran and Dominican Republic
native together. On that day, Uceta was
in Forest Hills heading to Corona to
visit some friends.
"Someone pushed me into him on
the train," she recalled.
They went to visit her friends together,
and she said the husband of
one of her friends acted as translator
for them. From there, their relationship
flourished.
At the time, she said, she did not
speak much English; the only words
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