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Crossroad Intersects

by            Jerry D. McDonnell                           Copyright©Jerry D. McDonnell, 2013 Published in Over The Transom #24, Dec. 2013     Like an intersection in a big city anywhere four Italian males in their late 20’s sat at Max’s restaurant down the block from the Curran Theater on Gerry Street, home of the Actors Conservatory Theater, actually on the corner of Geary and Mason Street, not that they’d been to the theater, but rather to a bar, or maybe more than one bar, not that they were Italy Italians but rather San Francisco Italians third generation and had never traveled in their over two decades of life even to the edge of the city limits in this city in which they had been born and raised and all were still living at home in flats in a neighborhood on the west slope of Nob Hill say like on Hyde Street with grandparents and great grandparents one of whom still couldn’t speak English and once this one San Francisco Italian (we shall call him Ric