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Escaping the 'Hood

I’m reposting this, one of the first things I ever wrote here, since I just visited Mike Cardin last week. 89 years old and still working downtown!

I hated grammar school. I hated high school. And I hated living with my family.

So far, this sounds like every other writer’s autobiography, doesn’t it? “I just didn’t fit in, and I was so sad, so buy my book”…