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“Where Are They Now?”

My older sister often came home from high school talking about a boy in her biology class who was super smart and a very good basketball player. She attended the then Eastside High School (now Paterson Eastside High School) in the mid-seventies when playing the record player and watching the Knicks, New York Mets, and […]

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