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His Family

CHAPTER X
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For these women who had been children in peasant huts in Italy now had children of their own in the great city of New York, and they found it very baffling.

How to keep them in at night?
How to make them go to the priest?
How to feed and clothe them?
How to live in these tenement homes, in this wild din and chaos?
They wanted help and they wanted advice.

Deborah spoke in Italian, but turning to her father she would translate from time to time.
A tired scowling woman said, "My boy won't obey me.

His father is dead.
When I slap him he only jumps away.

I lock him in and he steals the key, he keeps it in his pocket.


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