'60s Song

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Tom Dwyer. '60s Song

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CHAPTER ONE

The hot morning sun was already moving through the housing project on the banks of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. It created a haze that blanketed the city with a sweltering heat that seemed to have the whole world moving in slow motion. Frankie Johnson, a skinny, black teenager with a slight limp in his right leg, knocked on the front door of his best friend’s house. They had been friends ever since their families moved into the housing project on the same day ten years back. Frankie knocked again and heard footsteps in the house. The door opened, and George Bannon, a muscular Irish kid with wavy black hair and deep dark eyes saw Frankie standing on the steps.

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"Sure, why not? It could be fun hanging with the uppity white folks.”

They turned a corner and entered a large, almost perfectly round room. It was by far the biggest room they had found so far.

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