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I'm unfamiliar with that phrase, but I'll say: I went back in the 80's to see my uncle, after my grandparents died. The house was falling down around him, but
by e40 10y ago
I'm unfamiliar with that phrase, but I'll say:
I went back in the 80's to see my uncle, after my grandparents died. The house was falling down around him, but the rest of the neighborhood was in a similar state (still poor, still all black). When I knocked, a girl on a stoop across the street told me "the white man that rides the bicycle" wouldn't be back for a while. So I hung around. Because I was there during the week, instead of the weekend, it felt different. But, I was a lot older, too. I still felt at home, though.
A few years later the church across the screen bought my uncle's house and made it a parking lot. It was a good deal for them, since the house had been condemned by then. I haven't been back to my home city, but I did look at the street on google street view. Made me sad.
- ianai 10y agoGiven an aggressive stare as a nonverbal threat. That sounds similar to what's happening to my dad's place. The city reconnected a main street to circumnavigate his entire mobile home community a few years back.
- e40 10y agoNever had that, but as an adult I only went back that one time. Who knows what it'd be like now.