Orky’s Chicken was a gas station and Corelli’s Bakery was a check-cashing place.
Twelve years and two months.
He swore he wasn’t gonna come back to the neighborhood, but the parole office wasn’t down with him moving to Portland to live with a pen pal he met when he was locked up.
Best thing that happened to Tony Grollo in twelve was that Ernesto Mickens had kissed a tree doing 85 the day he cashed his profit-sharing check from Fords.
Ernesto had been dating Kyla for a month when he broke her jaw with a flashlight.
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