Alongside a portrait of his parents, Ed Piotrowski of Huntley shows the book he co-authored with his late mother Virginia about her recollections of growing up in Chicago in the 1920s and ‘30s and marrying and raising a family with her husband Ed, a World War II veteran. Courtesy of Ed Piotrowski

She may not have had a lot of training as a writer, but as a person writing straight from her heart onto paper in the latter years of her life, Virginia Piotrowski was an excellent storyteller.

And that comes across clearly in “Recollections From the Heart: A Greatest Generation Portrait” about her life as a child, her teen years and early adulthood in Chicago to the love story with her husband during the World War II years.

The book was, in fact, a mission of love from her son and co-author E

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