For displaced, misplaced, and nostalgic ex-Bronxites
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Posted by Amaranita
on Monday, September 30th 2024: In Reply to: Apartment house living posted by Barbara on Saturday, September 28th 2024:
I totally agree. I never aspired to a house. They seemed, first of all, so alien, and so lonely. I had so many friends in my building and on my block. It was a small city of kids to play with. If you were in a fight with one, there was always others to take up that space until everything calmed down - which it always did. Trick or treating was amazing. I think kids in single family neighborhoods would have to start today and go until October 31 to get all the goodies we got just on my block from all the apartments. As sung in the intro to the song People, from Funny Girl; "With them just let one kid fall down, and seven mothers faint", we were under constant scrutiny by everyone's mother, so we had better behave and be safe. It was a very supportive, (if not a bit stifling) upbringing. I wouldn't change it for all the private houses in America!
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