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    • Ten years in Canton

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      Correct me if I’m wrong but we, my parents and siblings as they were born during or before 1964, lived in Canton,  New York for ten years i.e. 1954-64. We lived at 19 Pearl Street which was one block long between and connecting Court and State streets. The house had 3 bedrooms upstairs and one bedroom on the first floor. By the time we left Canton to move to Schenectady where our  father had grown up, the downstairs bedroom had two cribs along opposing walls, one for Margaret and one for Jim. It also had a triple bunk at the farther end from the doors and with feet facing Pearl...

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    • “Five from the Top”

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      The five from the top saying I created was a way for me to hopefully succinctly describe my standing in the family of thirteen kids. Having a big family has helped me through many  job interviews particularly when I was a kid. I got it from the radio announcers who would preface a song by advising where it stood on the top ten list of popular songs.   Dad would drive us around to Mass and donuts afterwards particularly in Lent and on Sundays and also to our activities with lots of kids in the car and sing with us and toot the horn to songs. One that particularly stands...

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