Jim DeMaio Jr.

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“Woodland Avenue, Brookside ” by Jim DeMaio Jr.

Submitted to Contest #241

It's taken me a long time to think seriously about this former friend and someone who passed away at eighteen years old. He's someone I've never forgotten about, and he haunts my dreams.Joe was a really sensitive, loving kid who was always taller and skinnier than me. When my family built a house in the township of Mendham I started going to the elementary and then the middle school. I was in Mrs Thomas' class and it's likely there I first met Joe.His parents lived in a stone covered ranch house on Woodland Road and Summit Road. The house se...

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I'm a plant technician, married for 25 years with a teenage son.