The Characters: Frankie Canton
If you can smoke it, shoot it, snort it, inhale it, swig it, swallow it…not swallow it…Frankie’s your man. A scientific marvel in that he still does at times make sense. His wily heart still beats. And it thumps with much more than just the anxiety of the next fix .He loves his friends. His Deanne especially. Though one must love Frankie back with great indulgence to get to the good stuff.. Since forging a friendship with Deanne in Wrentham State Drug Rehab “ I was the monkey in the next cage”… he has remained as devoted a friend as a homeless, dispirited, speed freak can be. He is her confident, her watch-dog. She suffers his twisted drug-addled style of speaking because he can make her laugh. She’ll struggle to de-code his inverted sentences and nihilist rants.
Because his spirit is a good one… a dear one, becoming as lost as Frankie is not that hard.
Photo: Frankie Canton as played by Ted Brunetti
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