North Richmond Street: A Short Story

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North Richmond Street was not a noisy neighborhood which the siblings and friends enjoy playing around old houses and one of the boys had a desire for love of the neighbor.

North Richmond Street was a quiet dead end street until the kids were release from the Christian Brothers’ school. Also on that street, there was an abandoned two alarm house that was far away and lonely from the neighbor’s houses. The rest of the house on that street were aware of the ok living within each other, they looked at each other with brown calm faces. When the family moved into one of the house from North Richmond Street, they were told a priest lived in that house and died in one of the rooms in house. When they moved in the house, the air circulating around
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When they arrive at the market street, they would walk thru a deprived street and came across with a drunken men and bargain women further more there was a shop-boy who were by a barrel of pigs’ cheeks and finally we found street singers.
On a rainy quiet afternoon he went to the room were the priest had passed away and on the sealing there was a broken roof tile in which he can hear the rain impose ahead the earth, the nonstop lighting he hide below the bed. The sealing light above him was twinkling and he was glad he did not see much of what was going outside. All of his intelligence seemed to wish to cover them and was concern he was about to slide away from them, then he put together his hands until they shaking, murmuring: love! O love! numerous times.
He was waiting for his uncle to come from work so they can play, but he did not come until late that night and his uncle apologized for not making. He went walking towards Buckingham Street to the train station. The view of the street was so crowded with buyers and glaring with gas to remind his reason of the journey.
The boy falls in love with Megan’s sister a next door neighbor who he was checking from his window and always thought about her. He also thinks about the priest who died at the house where he moved in with his

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