Bodega DreamsWilliam Irizzari has reinvented himself as Willie Bodega, a drug lord who plans to use his money to buy and renovate his areas comdemned buildings. Told by Chino, a young graffiti artist, this is the story of whether hope and loyalty can survive in a world of crime. |
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... thought he was smooth but what he came out looking was creepy . He'd come to school in a suit and tell us that a man with a suit is a man that is valuable and that a man without a suit has no worth . He always did Robert Frost poems ...
... thought he was smooth but what he came out looking was creepy . He'd come to school in a suit and tell us that a man with a suit is a man that is valuable and that a man without a suit has no worth . He always did Robert Frost poems ...
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... thought he was smooth but what he came out looking was creepy . He'd come to school in a suit and tell us that a man with a suit is a man that is valuable and that a man without a suit has no worth . He always did Robert Frost poems ...
... thought he was smooth but what he came out looking was creepy . He'd come to school in a suit and tell us that a man with a suit is a man that is valuable and that a man without a suit has no worth . He always did Robert Frost poems ...
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... thought . And some fire displaced them . The city did nothing , as if the problem would go away all by itself . In time the buildings eroded . Later , the city wrecking ball knocked them to the ground . Bodega , I thought , was at least ...
... thought . And some fire displaced them . The city did nothing , as if the problem would go away all by itself . In time the buildings eroded . Later , the city wrecking ball knocked them to the ground . Bodega , I thought , was at least ...
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