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I moved in to my small neighborhood at age 4. I bonded with my first neighbor quickly (I had no choice they were my grandparents). My family hadn’t yet met the other neighbors when their was a knock at the door. That was the beginning of many confusing encounters due to our names. In our neighborhood I […]

My apartment on the northside of chicago had a series of pine trees next to the fence bordering our yards. For about three years, I always considered them to be very nice with a large collection of what appeared to be fallen pine cones littering the ground.  It turned out, however, that the nearly 300 […]

My neighbors kids play at my house all of the time. Seriously, if we were serial killers they would be dead and our neighbors wouldn’t know for days. They walk into our house without knocking and occasionally we find them in the back yard without our permission. Anyways, our 3 year old son was playing […]