My Brother and Me

Where: Detroit Michigan, 48238 Detroit (United States). When: on 07-12-2010.
Written at 07-12-2010 by Mark Chapman
Labels - siblings brother forgiveness
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WHAT DAVID WANTED me to apologize for was an incident that happened when he was 12 years old and I was ten. It took place on a rainy Saturday afternoon in our neighborhood on the edge of Detroit, some years before our folks moved northwest out of the city. A cousin of my age and my best friend in those days, Bill, had come over for the day. Bill and I had become bored after lunch becaus...

Smoking Crack With An Old Man

Where: 166 Odd Street , 30601 Athens (United States). When: on 10-11-2005.
Written at 10-12-2010 by Paul Madore
Labels - crack athens old men
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This is the first place I ever lived on my own, in this three-bedroom house in the darkest parts of the Athenian ghetto. I worked at a place not far from it, called DialAmerica, and I would walk home each night tired and worried about getting robbed. I remember the first time I got a paycheck, I went to the nearby Shell station and bought Winston cigarettes for the first time, they were $3.75 a...