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…
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The Family Album Straight Up With A Twist.
That’s Bossy’s grandmother Bert lying on the beach blanket, and her sister Jenny is sitting next to her facing the camera. They are both in their teens now, and that’s Atlantic City behind them. In a couple of hours—after Jenny is the color of a boiled lobster—they will climb back on the airless bus or…
The Family Album Straight Up With A Twist.
Meanwhile across town: Bossy’s grandmother, Bert. She was left on the doorstep during a rainstorm with a beautiful name pinned to her baby blanket, but the crazy old Native American woman wasn’t much for beauty and so she promptly rechristened her. In the photo Bert is perched on the shoulders of her only source of…