Dave can’t say where he comes from, because he comes from all over, a shiftless gypsy life he can’t always remember, one cheap apartment bleeding into another so that sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night forgetting which one he is in or just where he can go to find the bathroom. Not that his mother wanted to keep moving, she just does, she loses a job, money runs out, and they move before the landlord comes to collect rent they don’t have, finding a place just as bad in another part of Paterson, loaded with other apartments and other landlords, if not other jobs. Dave says she moved them to Clifton because she didn’t want him to get killed going to the schools in Paterson, Dave being big but not tough, on the verge of going to high school where no white boy like him in Paterson is likely to survive. But Clifton isn’t Paterson , and people on this side of Crooks Avenue don’t like renting to family’s like Dave’s, even when they’re white, and want too much whe...
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