Walt can’t get enough of Bert, but a fellow has to try to keep his head and be practical—after all, times are tough and they don’t have the money for an apartment or the stuff to fill it. Walt is working full time at the Tannery and playing drums six nights a week with a…
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The Family Album Straight Up With A Twist.
This is Walt and Bert and they are sitting on a rooftop above Camden New Jersey in the dead of winter. Bert is sixteen and Walt—as usual—just said something kick-ass funny. He is twenty. They met the year before—one day when Walt was hanging around with his buddies Fran and Harry. The row house where…
The Family Album Straight Up With A Twist.
Here she is—Bert and Jenny’s crazy Old Woman, for she was never mom—standing in front of the courthouse. And what is she doing there? She’s probably marrying a broken man with St. Vitus Dance and two scary teenage sons, of course. Or adopting a random orphan left dubiously in her care. Or filing a complaint…