5 episodes
For People Who Like The Heels Of Bread Thomas Martin Conroy
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- Society & Culture
For People Who Like The Heels of Bread is a collection of short stories, recollections, anecdotes about my immediate and extended family. Youngstown, Ohio, the middle-child dying steel town between Pittsburgh and Cleveland, was rich in its variety of ethnic groups and churches, especially Catholic ones like ours, and it had plenty of bars and taverns... and it was all we knew, so it was the whole world to me. Some members of my family refused to eat the heels of bread, but then there were those of us who gave in...
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For People Who Like The Heels of Bread 1
My mother had cigarettes and coffee for breakfast and spaghetti sandwiches for lunch. My father returned from church slamming the bulletin on the table angry about the damn nuns up on the altar who weren’t supposed to be touching the communion in the first place. My brother took inventory of their ability to guide and raise us and verbally expressed the brutally obvious while acting out in his own destructive ways. I played records in my room and was the silent observer, often praying that my mother would not die and leave me in the chaos of our little house with no one to turn to.
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For People Who Like The Heels Of Bread 2
John, my brother, was the first one to enlighten me that our mother lived in the past. Holding vigil for all her dead relatives, in constant prayer and in reverence of pictures displayed all over the house, we, the living, stood by. Do you know what day this is? This is the date....
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For People Who Like The Heels Of Bread 3
A FIVE BY SEVEN FRAMING THE HAPPIEST DAY OF HIS LIFE, episode 3.
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For People Who Like The Heels Of Bread 4
The toast prince and the hypochondriac in training, spending another normal summer at 940 Edenridge Drive, the house with three front yards, could, hopefully, all be saved by a lucky lottery pick or an answered prayer.... should God will it to be.
Episode 5 will be a continuation of this story. -
For People Who Like The Heels Of Bread 5
Episode 5 is a continuation of episode 4.... We needed to make sure indeed if anyone did, in fact, want toast.
The toast prince and the hypochondriac in training, spending another normal summer at 940 Edenridge Drive, the house with three front yards, could, hopefully, all be saved by a lucky lottery pick or an answered prayer.... should God will it to be.
Episode 5 will be a continuation of this story.