August 28

On Monday, August 28 we started reading "The Rockpile" and were asked to connect it to our own childhoods growing up. My childhood was very very different than the setting of The Rockpile. I grew up in a very safe neighborhood in Athens. We didn't know our neighbors too well (that we weren't already close to for other reasons) but it seemed there wasn't such a need to know them.

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