PART V

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Fall 1995

Hamilton and Cambridge, Massachusetts

It is elsewhere, elsewhere, the neighborhood you seek.

The neighborhood you long for,

where the gentle trolley—ding, ding—passes

through, where the adults are kind

and, better, sane,

that neighborhood is gone, no, never

existed, though it should have

and had a chance once…

—Thomas Lux, “The Neighborhood of Make-Believe”