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2 * Violgice 73 UNPEAL a Tiel Fes Ruge America:to the steel of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, ,the cellar of Heavens I was four years-old, when I was-told I was-adepted, My father would held mecon his knee-and tell me of 4he way it wasy when ‘ave Pooling! a: became- entwined forever; My imagination had ne need go return, with his leve remembering she sweetness of the-three of us fire, touching, My nearneas: fl was-new, and my eyes-were clear watching-his face; And zhen, when-he saw: i ae bee his sineereity, I was-ne longer the-adopted ones but the prune- ‘ . ‘ picker from California, And ‘I’never asked why I was:with ,hem, I ceuld , enly leek back te being three, when we-were three leaving. Pittsburgh's : Greentree-Township and ‘the winding cinder reddog roadsyrunning-off lon, : and narrow and half=paved' Patomie Avenues Away-from the backyard fountain and ‘gning-house~just above-the-housing-track, where-children's-noses: = aa “ agaist, windows sprayed by a girl holding:a bright new garden hese-made~ : ' for a-moment‘a belief in a-modern rain, we moved’, where«I began in the : " a beginning- of my begining: 40 leap grabing,he begining's of grass beginin,- . their-growgh green im springs. a : 1 nat time. of mere milage, between middle and upper middle clasa; I stood cobbliz sTowrk : in @ great ligtle pair of brown shoes on old yellow batvk atreets, that rested i within the winding lawn valley's-of Mount Lebanon Townships cedar Roars s sidewalks, which stepped ecasionally to let lets empty of houses, but thick with brush ha bark chipped trees good fer shacks reach fhe-etreetes I saw ivy cever : the deep red brick of our home-rich eV EW 4nd then the wind slowed across ‘ ; the ivy, and I watched my mother and father sense-the inside of the heuse: ‘ drowing them to it's fresh wealth’. 7 “ne field across the-etreet:waasas long-and as-real ag the farm running ever i © the fer hill, and'a low prickly hedge grew firm im clover, between good lawn . } gPace-end yneven sidewalk cement{ My mother tock’ me. from the strecty across a - Rerrow strip of bumpy tree-stemped grasa, hewitt mg, Satie oy th ses