Did Your Parents Speak English?

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My father spent a bit of time painting signs fora shops on devan street, which is a kind of a main drag in north side of chicago. My mam spoke decent english, and my dad did not. I definitely had my fair share of, you're not from around here tipe conversationss. But i was fortunate in the sense that i went to a very normal, inter city public high schol in ch Chicago. It was something like 30 % black, 30 % asian, 30 % everything else, ten percent people you didn't know existed.

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