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force actually believe my attention to the world came on like a hurricane
my father was a medical student at the time do it is internship in the hospital
in galveston
we lived nearby in la marque texas
a tiny town known primarily for dust
i don't recall much else about lamar because dad move maman made baltimore
shortly after i was born
by then he'd finished medical school and gone into the government health service
my dad got a striking figure
doctor in a uniform
a couple of old pictures i found chile i'm holdin me a druggie butter ball
shirtless grand unlike the gerber baby
while bad smiling widely in his navy uniform
instead of a cluster of medals on his pocket
he wears a large clobbered rad milken drool stained
his smile said he didn't mind
in baltimore we lived in government housing a line of brownstone or row
houses all of which were identical
the government pay our rent so you know
this was the cheapest housing they could find
of course today that neighborhood is gender five nos brownsville is probably
go for a busily in a piece
that day were look if you could tell what else was yours
something i could do with these even though i couldn't read yet up the my
grandfather found amazing
i love my grandparents visited
baseball me like crazy
well my sister janet came along they visited even more and paid as much
attention to me as to her
can't blame on
there were too much if you do with our she was just a howling baby with no
personality just a lot of them and
at least i had a sense of humor
early on by age to i started showing signs at any given moment
i would always go for the joke
my grandfather's floor this story is true but i don't remember it
i'll take your word because it sounds like me
it was a sunny afternoon and grandad had taken me for a walk
he was told me and we were strolling down the street outside our row house
he stopped to talk to one of our neighbors are very proper well-dressed
woman around his age
he started patting me gently on the back is a talk
all of a sudden are let out some very loud gas
what i learned a referred to when i had kids as a but burpee
grandpa law
now i said and i grabbed his face and shook my head
he broke up the woman didn't
either she thought he was a corporate or didn't think it was funny for me to
blame my grandfather because she just dorm dot
some people just don't appreciate a good far joke
i was never a wild or crazy kid but for some reason i seem to spend an enormous
amount of time in the emergency room
some people might say that i was accident prone
others that i was just a typical boy
a few people