Going home again

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Going home again (100 words)

She looked at me like who’s this crazy man when I asked if her flat had hot water.

Eldridge near Canal, fourth floor walk-up. No hot water, no heat. Now I hear they sell for over a million.

Pessis’ store down on the corner and a metal gate covers what used to be Shimmel’s Bakery. Best knishes in New York, take my word.

Trucks and people. Every day the street was busy. And the noise, like you wouldn’t believe.

“Zayde,” they said when I asked to visit the old neighborhood. “You can’t go home again.”

I guess they were right.

* Zayde = Grandfather in Yiddish

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