Chapter 26 Emotionally Spent

• “He was my last cousin you know," I said finally. It wouldn't surprise me if he did know, but for some reason, I still wanted to tell him anyway.
• "He had a brother and a sister, and I had a brother. It was all of us, our grandma, and both of our parents all in one three-bedroom place. Well, technically it was two bedrooms but it had this huge attic. They stuffed all of us kids into the attic together.
• Both our moms bailed, both our dads were bops, both of our brothers got involved in rival gangs, and as soon as his sister hit seventeen she ran off with some boyfriend of hers. Then...it was just me and Nicolo. Gosh, did he take it hard when I moved out?"