Ford, Paul EdmundPhoto © 2002 Christa Neu.
Where He Come From
From the womb with no desire to leave whatsoever, to middle-class (with the hours spent watching What's Happening approaching one over zero) West Chester, Pennsylvania, (patrilineal Irish, matrilineal Swedish, French, German, English, etc(we got around, mostly on horseback). Then to Milton Hershey School with my orphan brethren, then to Alfred University in the Godforsaken sticks, then to Jersey City, for Christ's Sake, then to , which is (hooray!) home.
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