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Now We Live on Clifton
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Now We Live on Clifton follows 10 year old Pam Taylor and her 12 year old brother Scott around their multiracial West Lincoln Park neighborhood. The kids worry that they'll be forced out of the neighborhood they grew up in by the gentrification following the expansion of DePaul University.
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[sil.]
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Here, let me see it.
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I’m not gonna… I’m not. Come on. Scott.
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[sil.]
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[sil.]
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This is where we go to school. It’s
right at the street from where we live.
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[sil.]
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That’s Wiley Mario(ph) with me and Scott.
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What kind of kids go to school?
All kind of.
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You have friends who don’t go here? Some of my friends
go to private schools. Not all of them go there.
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Why don’t they go there? They’re afraid.
Afraid of what? They will think that
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Anna was… like everyone got beat up over
there and so they want to come here,
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they are afraid, they might get beat up. Could any of
you afford to go to a private school if you wanted to?
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We wouldn’t want to go to that
school anyway. I don’t think so.
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That school is better. Why?
It’s the basketball team.
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What else is in there? Most of my
friends go there. Come on Mario.
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All right.
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[sil.]
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I like people around here because they are nice and
stuff and like all my friends that live around here
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aren’t just like they are Mexican and black
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and it doesn’t matter to them either
what color their friends are.
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[sil.]
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One of those guys Jaking start? 1906.
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No. Because the plains weren’t even
invented, Wally, use your head.
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[music]
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That’s our mother. She usually works to and fro from
work. She’s a secretary. I get to pick you sometimes?
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Okay.
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[sil.]
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Our father drive the cab mates, he’s waiting out for his
date made with my sister Roxanne and her boyfriend Bill.
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[sil.]
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We really like our neighborhood a lot.
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It’s a pretty good neighborhood.
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Oh, come on, throw it.
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[sil.]
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But there are a lot of things
changing that aren’t so good.
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[sil.]
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This is Wally’s house. Wally’s family and two
other families live here. Right across the street
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from Paul university. DePaul brought
the house and house is over there,
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around there and this house. I
think, it were some of these houses.
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Like their house, they’re gonna tear it down
pretty soon and then they have to move.
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All houses.
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[sil.]
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It’s fun. What if I miss the mattresses?
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I’m gonna brace myself.
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I can do it. Go ahead.
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Okay, you ready? Ready.
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[sil.]
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I’ll keep doing it now.
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I’m scared. Okay. Okay, I’ll do it.
Okay, I’ll do. Okay, now, one…
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[sil.]
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Sometimes, we just say, let’s go by
Wallace house and climb their roof.
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And when the plot tears down Wally’s house,
it’s gonna mean, one nice place to play
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and one nice friend to play with.
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[sil.]
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This is a fog hills and umm… my
friends and I sometimes come here.
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We used to go here more in the
summertime when there is nothing to do.
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What used to be here before? Houses.
They tore them down so they could
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build this place, university. Where do you
used to live when you started playing here?
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I lived right there. Red and yellow house.
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Now we live on Clifton, 2138 north Clifton.
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Our mom works days and
our dad works nights.
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My dad usually does the shopping and
cooks dinner before he goes to work.
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So what are you making
for dinner tonight Bill?
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Just hamburger (inaudible).
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[sil.]
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You have a cold.
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Oh, yeah clogged up nose.
Oh, yeah clogged up nose.
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Oh, you have a little cold. If you make
your bed, it will help cure it though.
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Right.
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What time you go to work today?
In just 15 minutes.
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[sil.]
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Oh, God, I hate this.
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[music]
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[sil.]
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What a cheap book? Got one.
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How was school today?
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I saved my life? No, it saved my life.
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Just like this. Like this.
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[sil.]
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What kind of dress would you like? Italian.
Mum, can you please (inaudible) salad.
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Can I have some tomatoes?
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[music]
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You can’t watch that.
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[music]
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[sil.]
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Man, you pulled my hair.
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Take it easy.
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Good-bye. Bye, see ya.
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[sil.]
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I’m going to test you. Test us. I’m
going to test you guys brains.
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Who is Grace More? Grace More.
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He was a wrong one. Wrong one. Okay,
what was the formula for sugar?
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Sugar.
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C12H22O11. Yeah. I don’t study it yet.
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Don’t touch, don’t touch.
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This is for…
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I’m all plans now. Who is Mrs., who is…
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[sil.]
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What happened?
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Quick, 1525. Who conquered
and ruled Egypt then? When?
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[sil.]
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How is it that the kids are gone?
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I’ll sit down and read the paper.
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[sil.]
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Maybe, it’s eastern standard time.
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No, Chicago.
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Reinforce these vacuums by taking appropriate
steps at the state and local level.
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We’ve already learnt from the state that
considerable amounts of energy can be saved
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simply by curbing unnecessary lighting
and slightly altering the school unit.
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[sil.]
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My sister Roxanna and her boyfriend Bill come to our
house a lot. We like to sit around and talk about stuff.
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We always had to get up every Saturday morning
and go through the whole house. Every Saturday,
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this whole thing of mopping both floors, doing all, you know,
just like our PM said. It just gets to be too much sometimes
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because a lot of it isn’t even necessary.
I can do the shoes, one night
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and then the next night, I don’t. The next
night, I don’t, the next night, I don’t.
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[sil.]
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I’m really glad Scott shares with me.
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On one of the nights
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that I don’t do the dishes, I take karate
class. My sister Roxanne teaches it.
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I like to learn karate because
umm… see before when I was little,
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they used to push me around and now I don’t
let them push me around. Because… Who’s them?
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Umm… some boys. Do boys tend
to push girls around a lot?
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[sil.]
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I always kick them and punch them.
Before Bill
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helped us learn karate, we decided that
only women should come because we felt that
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women were the ones who usually, were
the ones who got raped and not men.
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So we just decided just wouldn’t. So they could learn
to defend themselves. That happens to women a lot?
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I was walking down forward 10 and
in between like (inaudible),
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I was coming home. This man grabbed
me, to pull me into his car
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and umm… I was able, like I was taking karate for about
a year then and I was able to like block his arm
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and you know, kicked him in the groin and
punched him in the face and he split
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because he was hurting. One. Two.
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[sil.]
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Okay, that was good but let me show you one thing. You want to hit
with these two knuckles here. Now, this hand is the weak one. Try to…
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Good. Okay, uh… does everybody
know a knife hand before?
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Good. One, two, coming,
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one, two, good. One, two,
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one, two, one, two,
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one, two, one, two.
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[sil.]
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Like this.
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Very good. Step in more
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because this came up to here and
you really wanted to aimed.
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Try it.
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Good except, you want to act faster.
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Let’s see, that’s fine, come forward.
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Palm, you didn’t hiya, do it again.
Stop laughing.
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Concentrate on being strong, I mean, you
feel strong and ready to break the boards.
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I know, it’s gonna go.
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[sil.]
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No, I slipped. Let me do it again.
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[sil.]
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It didn’t work. I just
need to concentrate more.
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[sil.]
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We know, you can break it. We all broke
boards the last time. You shouldn’t feel bad.
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It didn’t work because of all the distractions.
You know, when you saw that with me,
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you saw that like I didn’t do it either because we
usually get up and we’re ready to tackle the world.
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It’s all right. Don’t feel bad. We’ll
save this board for you next time.
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And you can do. You know, when you
break this board, you’re bad.
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So next week and you’ll be there.
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You’d be bad, you know, you got over this
board. So you go put this under your pillow.
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Okay, how about if we go over the kata(ph)?
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Okay, cheer up sis.
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One, two, three… One, two.
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Okay.
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[music]
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In a couple of weeks, my sister Roxanna(ph)
is going to move to California.
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I’m really gonna miss her.
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[sil.]
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Yeah, yeah.
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Move in California. How did you know that?
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That’s why I say now. How do you know
you’ll become a baseball player?
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I say, I will. You did too.
No, he wants to make,
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he wants to take this long stick and it’s round then
he cuts it in half and puts a chain in the middle
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about this long. And that’s a self-defense
thing. All of her other friends have it.
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You did last night. Last night.
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What do you learn self-defense thing for?
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Yeah, cool.
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He said, so he could be cool to go like
there. I didn’t say that. I didn’t say that.
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He said that, he did, he did.
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[sil.]
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What time does it start? I don’t know.
Are you hungry at all? Yes.
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[sil.]
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Well, you decide because
you’re the one who’s hungry.
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[sil.]
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Where’s Bob?
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[sil.]
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This is the Puertorican league all start game but we don’t
know, if playing leagues. We play a lot in the schoolyard too.
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[sil.]
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Oh, two in a roll.
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[sil.]
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Mile used to live in this house. It’s right
down the street from where we live now.
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I lived here from 1966 to 1969.
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Then 1969, we moved. He paid us some
money to move out of this house.
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Because somebody else wanted
to live here, you know.
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Did the house looked like this when you
lived there? No. But I think they’re rich.
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[sil.]
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They have a Mercedes Benz. They have two
motorcycles and when I went to that guy,
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collect someone. He ought to be pulling
out a lot of money like a whole big roll.
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I don’t think of family, a regular old
family could afford a house like that.
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They’d have to, like umm… like be two people
and they have enough money to pay for it.
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So these people don’t have kids?
No. They have two dogs.
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Two dogs. Houses across the
street, they are Marley Rose too.
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Pretty soon, this box is gonna be just
like, just families without any kids.
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Because all those people are gonna
be kicked out. Because, you know,
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a regular old average family can’t afford some of
the houses. People are paying high prices for it.
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[sil.]
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It’s really terrible
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what the landlords who own these buildings are
doing. Because people can’t afford houses
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that cost $300 a month and
have like two bathrooms,
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two bedrooms, one small dining
room and a small kitchen.
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People can’t afford it and they need places
to live. If they could just like clean it
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and have it terminated each
month, then people could
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have new sinks and stuff and
just keep it the same price.
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When we used to live in woods and when I was walking
the school, we used to go to the drugstore.
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There used to be a shop here and they used to
have apartments on top of it. They now rent miles
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and it’s one thing and they took
off some floors and like this just
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parts of the floors there. They have a
spiral staircase and stuff and it’s
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real modern and it’s real new.
But I love my house anyway.
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It’s warm, it’s big enough for us. It
has things we need. Things we want
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and that’s all that matters.
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[sil.]
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[sil.]