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It is a house
I owned
for five years
Sometimes referred to
"The House on Orient Hill,"
it is presently on
the market
and the address is
The asking price is
almost exactly ten times
the amount
I sold it for
in 1981
A private North Shore beach
is within a healthy
walking distance
of this Long Island
waterfront community.
two miles west of
where I lived
and loved and laughed
for the first
≈ 27 years of my life ≈
plus the twilight
of my 31st year
before becoming
a California resident
For my first birthday
as a Cali res,
I belatedly received
a gift from
It was a
a $20 check
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Which did you prefer: Sound Beach or Rocky Point?
ReplyDeleteI loved both of them but, unlike Rocky Point,
DeleteSound Beach is NOT imbeded in my DNA
Neither my parents nor Linda lived long enough
to see the house on Orient Road
and the only times my living sister
was there, she raced through
the house with her husband
and their offspring because
they had spent too many hours
visiting our remaining relatives
in Rocky Point
Oliverio says:
DeleteI loved both of them but, unlike Rocky Point,
Sound Beach is NOT imbedded in my DNA.
Neither my parents nor Linda lived long enough
to see the house on Orient Road
and the only times my living sister
was there, she raced through
the house with her husband
and their offspring because
they had spent too many hours
visiting our remaining relatives
in Rocky Point