Like all family albums, Sometimes I Still Pray is a collection of memories-stories, pictures, poems-captured for different reasons, in different ways, at different times in the writer's life and in the lives of his family members...a record stretching across five generations, from immigrant Brooklyn in the early 1900s to suburban New England in the early 2000s. These were my only ties to a time before my memory, to days of tragedy, the origins of my story. All the back pages confirm that I was cursed to bridge the ...
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Like all family albums, Sometimes I Still Pray is a collection of memories-stories, pictures, poems-captured for different reasons, in different ways, at different times in the writer's life and in the lives of his family members...a record stretching across five generations, from immigrant Brooklyn in the early 1900s to suburban New England in the early 2000s. These were my only ties to a time before my memory, to days of tragedy, the origins of my story. All the back pages confirm that I was cursed to bridge the generations. Now I feed their remnants to the fire.
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