Tag: family
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If I had to choose an element that was my grandmother it would be fire. As many of you know, I grew up in a rowhouse on Symington Avenue in Baltimore during the 1960s. I’ve always counted myself lucky to have grown up in a home that had an extended family, having my parents as…
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My pop gun was broken, and Grand Pop Cage could see that I wasn’t happy about it. We each got a ten ounce bottle of Coca Cola out of the frig and sat at the bottom of the stairs out back on Symington Avenue. The bottles of pop were delivered every Saturday from Uncle Lou’s…
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Greetings and welcome from Baltimore. I’m writing from my Dad’s apartment, not far from where I grew up. I’m having a mug of green tea this morning and staring at a peach and deciding on whether to have that with my cereal or a banana. Maybe I’ll have both. There are locally grown tomatoes on…
Billy Kemp 