GOING TO CHURCH
WITH EGG WHITE
I was a kid, really nothing, and I'd met
this other kid, on the way to church.
The day before we'd been playing a
pick-up game of neighborhood baseball
behind the portables in the school-yard,
like we often did. Kids from one or two
blocks, making a team to play kids from
another set of blocks. Happened all the
time, and sometimes, new kids showing
up, there'd be people you didn't know.
That was this guy. We started walking
together, just by the happenstance of
meeting. When he said his name, I did
really think he said Egg White. So I was
calling him Egg. Only later I found it,
his name was a simple Ed; Ed White,
now called Eddie so this wouldn't
happen again.
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