http://thestory.org/special-features/your-stories/041207_Remembering_Joey.mp3 Plone 2.0 http://thestory.org/special-features/your-stories/041207_Remembering_Joey.mp3/logo.jpg http://thestory.org/special-features/your-stories/041207_Remembering_Joey.mp3 <h4>REMEMBERING JOEY</h4><p>Karen Dalton is an artist who lives near Bynum, North Carolina.  She recently wrote to The Story about someone she knew from her childhood in Newark, New Jersey, a boy named Joey.</p><blockquote><p>Joey was a Downs Syndrome kid that lived on our block 4 houses from mine… Joey was not allowed out of the house. He lived on the second floor. [But] Joey spent his childhood playing with us from the windows in his house.<br />-Karen Dalton</p></blockquote><p>Karen learned from her mother just this month that Joey passed away. He was 61. She talks to Dick about her poignant and fun memories of Joey's friendship.</p><ul><li>Read <a title="Karen's Essay" href="resolveuid/ad41e4340481f59785483f62d0107d44" target="_self">Karen's essay about Joey</a></li></ul> Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:00:00