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"The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence."
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"My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her."


"I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old."


"They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me."


"The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence."


"My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets."


"Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man."


"Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed."


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