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Sunday Read: ‘It’s Who We Are’ by Cat Agonis

 

Sunday Read: ‘It’s Who We Are’ by Cat Agonis
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Sunday Read: ‘It’s Who We Are’ by Cat Agonis

 

Sunday Read: ‘It’s Who We Are’ by Cat Agonis

 

It’s Who We Are

by Dallas Athent

Some things yous can’t escape. That’s what I’ve learned about it all. I can’t escape bein a man. I get jealous and tight sometimes. Specially at work in front of the boys, if someone challenges me… And yous know how it is wit a dame. Some things yous can’t escape and that’s what I know.

I grew up in College Point. My family clan is from there. We’re Irish-Italian. I got pushed out to Maspeth to oversee a branch of pop’s plumbin business cause…

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