University of Baltimore M.F.A. student Noelle Ford remembers growing up in Baltimore County, and what could be said inside her house versus outside it. Noelle is a Spanish teacher at Friends School of Baltimore.
I grew up in a corner rowhouse of Tommy True Court, a Baltimore County neighborhood peninsula-ed by the Liquor Pump and a car auction lot. Tommy True was full of identical houses with mostly mowed lawns and mostly rusty lawn chairs out front. In winter, these lawn chairs migrated to the parking lot where they guarded freshly shoveled parking spaces.
“Why does Dad have to dig us a spot? Can’t we just park in the spot Mr. Jack shoveled?” I asked, one winter. I smeared my forehead across the condensation of our glass front door. I was watching my dad, bent and backlit by headlights as he shoveled wet snow into curbside mountains.
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