re: #155 Man, DangerMan

oh yes a very important point in the wider context.

i was only focusing on the ‘known all my life’/relatives/how is this person that person aspect… how could my mom/dad/gramma/bro/sis possibly be like this…

one thing that prevented me from growing up that way was watching my neighborhood in Gary, Indiana, go from all-white to mixed to white minority in a matter of a few months.

My mom mom was a widow who could not afford to join the White Flight to the suburbs. Some of those black and Latino kids became my best buddies and playmates.