By Matt Goisman
Sports Writer
McALESTER — The journey of Ralph Perona, an 88-year-old McAlester resident, begins and will likely end in Oklahoma. He was born in Savanna in 1924, moved to McAlester in 1928 and has lived here continuously since 1981.
In between his childhood and his final destination, however, he spent almost 30 years living in England.
“Everybody used to ask me, ‘When are you thinking about going home?’” Perona said Thursday. “I said, ‘Every day.’ I was always homesick.”
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