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Portrait of Richard James Pontes
Smile When You Think Of Me

Richard James Pontes

December 5, 1962 – September 3, 1996
Lived 33 years
Mt Pleasant Cemetery · Arlington, MA
Life story

▪︎ Devoted Son, Brother, Uncle, Friend

• Introspective Introvert

• Artist who's works appears in various locations including Fatima Shrine, Boston, MA

• Co-founder and drummer of The Mood band with the late Arthur Orfanos created in their years together at the Jr. High East, Arlington MA circa 1975. Released their CD of The Mood: Live From The Boston Tea Party in 1990s. Can now be played on Spotify and purchased in mp3 format on Amazon.

• Published poet of Songs of the Wilderness book on Amazon https://a.co/d/2WnZMCN

Praise God; and I Remember Knowing: a journey into a young man's life of faith, hope, loss and love.

• Successful Facebook Meta Page: Poet's Corner-Richard's Originals. Over 350 original poems where found among his possessions along with his artwork. A FB page was created and quickly grew to 3,500 members during it's introduction in 2015. An original poem was posted daily for a year. Subscribers from 40 Countries represented. His page premiered 20 years after his untimely undetermined death.

https://www.facebook.com/PoetsCornerRichardsOriginals?mibextid=ZbWKwL

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1962
Born December 5
1969
Richard was 7 when the Woodstock music festival opened
1977
Richard was 15 when Star Wars opened in theaters
1981
Richard was 19 when MTV began broadcasting
1982
Richard was 20 when "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" opened in theaters
1995
Richard was 33 when "Toy Story" became the first fully computer-animated film
1996
Passed away September 3, age 33
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