When you’re seven and following your older brothers, there’s a shortcut for everything: through a neighbor’s yard, over a fence or, in this case, behind an apartment building and down an alleyway. It was in this alleyway that we found a trove of discarded building materials from the construction of an apartment building on ConnecticutContinue reading “5. Sergeants & Ghosts”
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4. Moe
When there were only five children in the Reilly family, my parents took the four older kids to Canada on vacation and left Kevin, the baby, at home with our grandmother. They visited Quebec and Niagara Falls, but the stories they came back with didn’t involve any of the sights. Apparently, Dad never wanted toContinue reading “4. Moe”
3. Heights
To explain how young my grandmother was when she married my grandfather, Mom said, She put a piece of paper with a 1 written on it in her left shoe and one with an 8 in her right shoe, so she could say yes when they asked her at the courthouse if she was overContinue reading “3. Heights”
2. Watch
One of my earliest memories is of standing in front of the toilet in the second floor bathroom at Jocelyn Street with my brother Brian. We were looking at our oldest brother Dennis’ watch as it lay submerged in the toilet bowl, trying to figure out what to do next. Kevin, Brian and I wereContinue reading “2. Watch”
1. Lost
It wasn’t until years later that I understood all children don’t go missing at some point in their lives. The story was one I had heard as far back as I could remember and, although I didn’t remember the event itself, I had absorbed enough detail to tell it as though I did. It wasContinue reading “1. Lost”
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