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Jonathan Bisignano abroad in the Greek Isles. An avid traveler, he traversed Europe,
much of Central America, and spent his last spring break in Japan. Photo
courtesy the Bisignano family
Jon cont. from page 33
bored. She called her friend at the
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity to see
if there was anything going on.
They were playing beer pong, he
said. Come on over.
She and another girl walked to
the fraternity. When she arrived
and found her friend, she saw a
blue-eyed boy sitting watchfully on
the steps of the house’s atrium.
“Eyes so blue they just stop you,”
Tamkin later recalled. “They are the
first thing you see when you walk
into a room.”
She asked her friend who the boy
was, and he told her Jonathan was
his big brother at the fraternity.
“You didn’t tell me you had a really
cute big brother,” she told him.
“Thanks.”
She and Jonathan ended up talking,
and then taking a walk together
to a campus bar to have a drink. He
told her she had the most beautiful
eyes. Though flattered, she scoffed
at him.
“Are you okay? My eyes are
brown,” she said.
He gave her his phone number
but she later realized it was missing
a digit. She assumed it was on purpose
and she’d never talk to him
again. But weeks later, in Cabo for
spring break, she ran into him on
the beach. They ended up hanging
out for the next four days. When
she got back to USC, she thought,
“You know what, I’m just going to
text him.” He came over that night
to do homework with her, and they
worked and talked, the beginning of
a conversation that would be ongoing
until the day he died a little
more than two years later. They fell
seamlessly and deeply into love.
Her first impression had been
that Jonathan, with his good looks
and cool swagger, puffed out chest
and perfect posture, was “such a
frat boy.” But he turned out to be
anything but. He was broadly curious,
unconventional in how he
thought and the intensity with
which he lived. He was absolutely
full of love, both for the world and
for the people he shared his life
with, and completely unafraid to
show it.
“Being in college, the guys are all,
‘Yeah, hook up with a hot girl,’”
Tamkin said. “Jon was so different,
so kind, so unlike anyone I ever
met. He just wanted to hang out
and talk and get to know you. We
just hit it off the moment we met.”
“What was so special is he really
lived every day like it was his last,”
she said. “That is something I take
away as a lesson from him. He was
so full of life. The last weekend we
spent together, he was dancing in
the desert, having the time of his
life, nonstop, go, go, go.”
Next month: love, loss, lessons, and
the embrace of community. B
34 Easy Reader / Beach magazine • November 10, 2016