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61 - strawberry milkshake, and go licking my lips again out across Beverly Read and ever to the five and ten cent stere run by aneuther thick eyebrewed jew whe pushed you out his red deer if you walked around te many counters with your eyes up and your head dewn, After awhile, when I became a weekend part ef the street, I couldn't even get past the red deor, Except during ye yo season at the begining of spring, when I would walk in yelling, I want a ye yo with my hands in my peckets and a gleam in my eye kmowing that his sigh weuld mean that he was at a less for words and I would theemaster bess during our ene menent ef the year, Beverly Road was the begining of a reality world voyage that would be interwoven with a childs fantiyy perception lasting fer the coming few yearss Uinceln scheol was at the lewer end ef Mount Lebanon where ene ef the working : mens towne began, It was a grammer scheel ending at the sixth grade level, Cat Men was in sixth grade and was said the be sixteen years olds He ran the school and I learned alet as a child watching him move within the little boya and girls making sure nebedy ever picked en anybedy smaller than tnQs ewn : sizes Nebody geemed to know where he came from and it was like he just drepped in from outer space every day, He had long black hair and a square tight face like that of a down te it street kids He was faster than all the Lineain bums i who were mostly his age or even older and he was the only one I ever saw jump : eff the Linceln wall, There he was crouching over the edge with his hands wrapped areund the iren fence behind his backs He was leeking eut ever the i‘ wide dirt field like an eggle when he sprang with hie hands far out’ imte beth sidessef the skys He went down fast and relled when he hit the dirt and ‘ then turned hia bedy up without leoking at any one of the peeple watching and "Phew - ctusteqmeere—sni<ietisun secs So gee ect ae ate eg ss ™ ae: ed