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Originally Posted by Shawn
Was this in the 70s, 80s, or early 90s? Sounds like stories I've heard from older family members about Southie and Charlestown back then.
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Wow, people are talking about the exact spot I'm talking about. I think my first memory is riding a bike down this main road and getting dirty looks from everyone in this complex:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3779.../data=!3m1!1e3
Actually I remember being in DT Boston before that and seeing an Irish woman, dressed in a what appeared to be a homemade house dress made of stitched-together rags, walking her son with a homemade leather leash tied around his neck. She was smoking and yelling at him and yanking on the leash for no reason.
My mom was adopted out of an orphanage in Ireland as a child, so she doesn't have an accent, or any real memory of the place, so it's an odd circumstance having automatic citizenship in a country you have no emotional tie with.