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Antonio - remember playing stickball until someone broke a window and the game would end right then and there? Or "king of the mountain" ? Or, if you lived on the top floor of a walk-up apartment building like we did - no elevator for those not in the know - and you'd have to go to the bathroom, and there'd be no way you'd make it up all those stairs, so you'd dive for the bushes, or stand nonchalantly between two cars, and whiz away. . .Dropping water balloons off the apartment roof onto cranky old ladies, playing on fire escapes, and rummaging thru the basements of apartment building until the "super" (janitor) busted you - all were our ways of coping with life in the big city. It really was kind of cool to duck under the IRT turnstiles and meet your Dad on the platform when the train came in. Or to sneak under those turnstiles and ride into Manhattan to visit all the hobby shops and train stores and the Grandmother who lived <br />nearby. We all did such stuff when we were 7-10 yrs old, so it wasn't all that mean and hostile an environment - just low income. . .Heck, we were probably the worst element in the neighborhood. LOL <br />BILL
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