8-18-08  I connected today with Mike Gomez who grew up on my street when we were kids.  He was my brother Bobby’s best friend.  It was so good to connect with him and catch up.  His mom still lives in the childhood home.  I Googled a satellite view and found my old home 980 E. 27th Street in Hialeah.  It’s all concrete now and looks so small I can’t believe we all lived there.  We had dozens of trees front and back and the fence was a tight privacy hedge of Surinam cherry, and now I see none.  I barely recognize it.

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