“That was all Irish and Jewish back in my day. We didn’t go up that way. Things had a certain order to them, you see, despite the dysfunction. There were just certain streets you didn’t go down, certain neighborhoods you didn’t bother to set foot into.” “It’s sort of like that now, too,” I said, excited to bond over something. But I didn’t get very far. “No. It’s very different than when I was growing up. It’s not the same at all, trust me.”
