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| Just go around London, ON May 2022 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
Mine was the stretch of green fencing between our childhood home and our next-door neighbor, Mr. Schwartz.
If I’m being charitable, Mr. Schwartz was nasty, and everyone on the street knew to avoid the man who seemed to hate by default, especially if you were a kid.
He yelled at us if we so much as touched the fence at the edge of our yard. So, of course, we did. And over the years we learned to respond to his aggressiveness with aggressiveness of our own.
He never did quite figure out what happened to his Christmas lights. Or why the dog poop he refused to pick up from neighbours’ lawns ended up on his porch. We were simply returning it to its sender.
My parents’ house sold long ago, and Mr. Schwartz lived a lonely life until he got sick and passed away.
But every time I come across chain link - like this galvanized example near the neighborhood elementary school - I imagine that in another life he’s learned to use fences to connect rather than divide.
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