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Thursday, April 12 2007

REMEMBERING JOEY

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.

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.
-Karen Dalton

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.

Read Karen's essay about Joey

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