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$37.50 a month
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44 $37.50 a month we inherited the place from bill’s mother been in the family since before ww ii passed from one family member to another the rent never changing we moved from a flat on duncan and delores a corner second story with bay windows and cockroaches where my oldest yvonne then two locked me on the roof when i was hanging clothes on 24th and noe i hung clothes from the porch on great lines that stretched from the building to a tall pole on the sidewalk weighed down with blankets and sheets once the line gave way and hung down the dirty wall like a broken vow i can see my daughters like an old black and white photograph sitting on the back steps in their party dresses 45 dark transparent wings of bugs hanging on their lips waiting for their young father out playing with his friends waiting for us to grow up and be their parents ...