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1960<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Genie… here’s a quarter. Now run down to the corner and get me a Hershey’s from the store.\u00a0 You keep the extra coppers for pin money.\u00a0 Don’t tell Big Gene.”<\/p>\n

My father’s mother was sneakier than any of her twenty-one grandchildren when it came to copping a candy fix in broad daylight.\u00a0 A final stage diabetic, her pancreas barely running on fumes, Grandma Petro somehow managed, through simple fear of the Lord and all that His wrath might subsume in the afterlife beyond, to squeak out a few extra years of existence in the back bedroom of my uncle’s Levittowner before slipping away forever one snowy afternoon in front of\u00a0 the 13″ black-and-white that rose above the medicine bottled landscape of\u00a0 her night stand.\u00a0 The last words I remember her telling me shortly before she died were,\u00a0 “Remember Genie, God did not put us on this earth to be happy.”\u00a0 I looked around her tiny room and dwelled on the thought as she prepared in her own way to pass away. I’ve tended to resist the pundits, across the board, ever since.<\/p>\n

I was\u00a0 the only youngster in the clan she trusted enough to routinely make the street corner run and actually return with her chocolate dope; the few copper coins from the grocer, a meager compense for my silence. “Pin money,”<\/em> she’d insist. Whatever that meant.\u00a0 The woman terrified me and loved me at the same time.<\/p>\n

For half a generation, eight people lived under the pitched roof of that modest three bedroom, one bath tract home just north of Philly and across the river from Jersey.\u00a0 Grandma occupied the tiniest room in the back; my aunt and uncle, the largest; the five children of varying ages and gender split the square footed difference with blankets and pillows strewn in every remaining\u00a0 corner of carpet.\u00a0 By 1968 the family finally added another bedroom and bathroom to the tax rolled address along with three more kids and a foster child.\u00a0 Life trickled on.<\/p>\n

1980<\/strong><\/p>\n

On occasion of the long anticipated and touted Mortgage Burning Party<\/em> celebrating the last and final payment to the Savings and Loan, Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1960 “Genie… here’s a quarter. Now run down to the corner and get me a Hershey’s from the store.\u00a0 You keep the extra coppers for pin money.\u00a0 Don’t tell Big Gene.” My father’s mother was sneakier than any of her twenty-one grandchildren when it came to copping a candy fix in broad daylight.\u00a0 A final […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3635,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3635\/utopia-eureka-eugene\/","url_meta":{"origin":6944,"position":0},"title":"Utopia, Eureka, Eugene!","author":"Geno Petro","date":"August 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Now where was I...? 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