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I place I used to live when I first came to town. _______________________________________
The raw, coiled red glare of the hot plate-- the urine stain of a sink and the waft of Red Sauce from Davio's below-- The head a short, anxious scamper down the hall, the hacking cough of the retired civil servant through a thin wall. And the spinster who peers from the crack in her door gathers her pennies and courage for her big trip to the corner store, And the decrepit wooden ladder that ascended to a tar roof the sweet /sorrow scent of city, rain and sea... and my youth...

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Reviewed by Chantilly Lace (Reader)

Reviewed on November 6, 2006

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Reviewed by SaPAth AnANd

Reviewed on November 5, 2006

Fond memories of ones youth.The place we lived is quite important to how we percieve things.

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