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.
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…
The Family Album Straight Up With A Twist.
Across town: Bossy’s grandfather, Walt. A real prankster, this kid. A natural athlete and hell-raiser. The first one up in the morning, the first one diving into an icy ocean, the first one across the Ben Franklin Bridge on ribbon-cutting day. He hops freight trains to school and lobs eggs into Grand Opening crowds and…