There would be years of apparent calm, then suddenly an outbreak of panic and wildness: two or three lives scarred (perhaps ruined), and the turmoil would subside. Shrewd, volatile, unlettered, they performed on a Dreiserian scale. They never spoke as though they knew who they were, understood the bargain they had struckwith life, but they often acted as though they knew. They were everywhere, of course-husbands, fathers, brothers-but I remember only the women. There were twenty apartments, four to a floor, and all I remember is a building full of women. I lived in that tenement between the ages of six and twenty-one. In the Bronx 'ride the subway' was a euphemism for going to work. 'Drucker, you're a whore,' my mother says. I told him he's gotta take a shower before he can touch me.' I know that 'he' is her husband. Drucker jerks her head backward toward her own apartment.

My mother locks the door and says to her, 'What are you doing here?' Mrs. Drucker is standing in the open doorway of the apartment next door, smoking a cigarette. My mother and I come out of our apartment onto the second-floor landing.

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