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1998 Little City Foundation. Palatine, IL
I hate to be here and lose the condo, you know what I mean? But I can’t be in two places. I hate to be living here and lose the condo or living at the condo and losing this. Do you like it here? I like to go to temple every Friday night. Do you get to? I would have been married but my mother sent me here. I told my mother there’s a girl coming to the store to marry me but she wouldn’t believe me. My mother never believes me and neither did my father. They put me in so many hospitals it would make your stomach crawl. Elgin, Chicago State, Chicago Read, Evanston. If you get into a nice hospital, you meet a nice nurse to talk to you. That Read Hospital, I met Alice there. I said, “You gotta come out with me and marry me and take care of me or I’ll be gone baby.” She said, “I can’t take you, I gotta go with my mother.” I said, “Bunk on your mother. Your mother will die and leave you all alone. You want to be all alone all your life. I don’t want to be all alone in my life. That’s why I met you. To marry you so you can take care of me.” “I can’t do that.” “Well I’m sorry for the both of us. Maybe when we’re both born again we’ll have different stories to tell each other.” I wish my father was still alive. I wish he’d lived to be a hundred but by that time, I’d be dead. I would always have a store to work in. They take me shopping here. I always go to the produce racks and fool around in the produce. Endive and cabbage and lettuce and tangerines, tangelos and Florida oranges and persimmons and pomegranates, just to tell a few. Then you have big cantaloupes and musk melons and watermelons, long ones and round ones. The long ones come from Texas and the round ones come from Florida. I know a little bit about the grocery business. I like running the concession stand anyways. |
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