texts: We weren't rich.  But we weren't poor either. </s> <s> No, you were middle class, like all Americans. </s> <s> I guess you'd say we lived on the wrong side of the tracks.
labels: In Dudley there were more sides of the tracks than any American can imagine.  Every Englishman knows his place.  And if you forget, there's always someone to remind you.  My family had no doubts about who they were.  But I was an aberration in that household a freak of nature.  I had imagination, cleverness, joy.  Where did I get that?  Certainly not from them.