<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472870" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Coming Home</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s forty years since I’ve been in this house, <br>mum sold it soon after father died.<br>The owners changed it into a Chinese takeaway <br>which grew bamboo shoots outside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since then I’ve moved about like a gypsy<br>journeying from place to place.<br>Recently I returned to my old neighbourhood, <br>and yet to see a familiar face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now I’m standing in the Chinese takeaway, <br>the place where I was born and bred.<br>When I left here it was my mum and dad’s café, <br>with an alley, back yard, and shed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In 1944 they bought this bomb damaged house, <br>with its old bicycle repair shop, <br>but they changed it into a ‘second hand’ business, <br>selling clothes, boots, and what not.<br> <br>In 1949 it became an ice-cream parlour, <br>which evolved into a transport café.<br>For almost thirty years that’s how it remained, <br>until the year dad passed away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Orlando+Belo">Orlando Belo</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472870" data-title="Coming Home de Orlando Belo" data-description="It’s forty years since I’ve been in this house, mum sold it soon after father died. The owners changed it into a Chinese takeaway which grew bamboo shoots outside. Since then I’ve moved about like a gypsy journeying from place to place. R..."></div> </div> </div>

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