Walk Away, a memoir

Winning & Losing

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In my second year of law school, after a brief stay in a rental house in another town, Mink and I moved back to our urban slum neighborhood in Lynn, renting a two-room apartment on the third floor of a tenement complex called Kingsley Terrace.

The building was below code in many ways; there was no security system, the windows rattled in their frames and leaked rain and snow…