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By Jack Joseph Smith

I see that my training in Pittsburgh has been the strongest point I have had holding together my sur= vival, Greentree Road, and later Whiskey Hollow. Mt. Leban (Old Virginia Mannor) and Metzes Field, and Kennedy Forest. Dormont Nursery School, Saint Bernard's, Thorn Hill, Valley Forge, and Kiski briefly before Ralf Fife, and Mr. Bernardie at Mt. Lebanon, Fay Parker, the Poverty Program, Father Joyce. The Hill’ District. Birdy at the Hurricane, Martin P, Summerville, Lower Fifth Avenue. and I will find it all out on the journey to the graves of my first parents, and will say that my adopted parents are the reason I am alive, while the challange I undertook of writing would never had been possible without these peo~ ple and institutions being in my youthful blood.

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Pittsburgh training, institutions, neighborhoods, and adoptive family are named as the living basis of survival and writing.

The page is openly testimonial. Even with some OCR damage, its emotional argument is firm: whatever artistic challenge the speaker later undertook was made possible by the dense social fabric of schools, roads, programs, priests, and parents.

Claude

A testimonial roll of places and people - 'Greentree Road', 'Whiskey Hollow', 'Dormont Nursery School', 'the Poverty Program', 'Father Joyce' - declared the 'strongest point I have had holding together my survival'. The page resolves into gratitude: the speaker will travel 'to the graves of my first parents' but credits 'my adopted parents' as 'the reason I am alive', insisting the writing itself depended on 'these people and institutions being in my youthful blood'.