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I promised my mother I would help him get through it all.
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So I caught up with him this one night and I was already half a dozen drinks behind.
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So we had a few more.
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And after a while he tells me he wants to drive me back to the apartment.
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I said no thanks.
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We were all still living there then.
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I just stood there and watched him drive off.
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Makes it through the whole goddamn war and I let him drive.
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Later that night, Ines was typing whatever it is they type on, and you know what she
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tells me?
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She tells me how much my book meant to her.
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My brother's getting cold in the next room and all she can talk about is a book.
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Well, everything changed from then on.
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Within five months, I buried him, my ma, my father, all of them here in the Bronx.
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We spent our summers here and if we were lucky, the fall.
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A lot of falls with those teams.
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Not enough.
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The rest of those who have gone before us cannot steady the unrest of those to follow.
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You wrote that in your book.
