November 19, 2017
Los Angeles
It was the second to the last day of April, 1949, a Friday. A light rain was falling on the streets of Hollywood, as the Gentleman, the Cowboy and the Bracero each readied himself for the picture taking. It was mid-morning when each gathered with their separate classmates at Los Feliz Elementary School. Michael, The Gentleman, pulled his top hat down hard on his head, Kelvin, The Cowboy, pulled his scarf away from his chin, and Steven, The Bracero, cocked his sombrero way back on his head.
It had stopped raining. The sun was shining. Life was GOOD.
What the three boys didn’t know was their father just two months earlier had brutally beaten and stabbed to death a Los Feliz real estate woman who was showing him a vacant “For Sale” residence just a mile from their school. And, what they couldn’t know was that in just six months forward, their father would be arrested for incest and sexual molestation of his 14-year-old daughter, their half-sister.
No. For the Gentleman, the Cowboy and the Bracero in school that day in April 1949, with their mates in Hollywood –LIFE WAS GOOD.
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