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Back to Bethlehem: Tell it Again, Dad |
| Section: LIFE / FAMILY |
| Author: Bradley D. Ross |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 2,778 Words, 15,184 Characters |
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"When we were kids, we were so poor that … When we were kids, our neighborhood was so tough that … When we were kids, we walked miles though the snow to get to school, and it was so cold that …" For thirty years I listened patiently, but skeptically, to my father's tall tales of his hometown. At each retelling, Dad's old neighborhood grew colder, tougher, and poorer. This year I decided to call his bluff. We would take a surprise trip back to Dad's hometown--a town I had never seen and a town Dad hadn't visited in forty years.
My father was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia. He moved to Los Angeles when he was fourteen years old. The youngest of three children, he grew up on the doorstep of Lehigh University. Although Lehigh was known for engineering and not foot...
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...enough to understand, I knew I would take my boy to Bethlehem to walk the streets, to see the Big Game, and to her some tall tales about his grandfather.
Now that we have been back home in Los Angeles for awhile, my dad is still telling his tall tales of his hometown. And now at each retelling of how cold it was and how poor he was, I feel warmer and richer than he could ever imagine. vbcrlf
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