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ribrepin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 02:54 PM
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65. There's a book called "All Souls: A Family Story from Southie"
It's about a large family living in the Old Colony Housing Project in Boston. There wasn't a father around most of the time. The family was on the rugged edge in the 70's. They all brought that Reagan's tickle down economics would lift them. Years later, they were still waiting for the tickle to get to them and their neighborhood was full of crack. The author had lost three of his brothers to violent death and one sister was permanently brain damaged.

I think it's the saddest book I have ever read.
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