I loved the idea of "true Arabs know." I got to thinking about me and what part of my life only some people would know...being a Chicagoan...
"A true Chicagoan knows you have to take the bus to get anywhere near
22nd and California."
someone said to me yesterday-
I'm only from the suburbs, not the shore of Lake Michigan.
I have to take the train to the Tower, not a cab or four minute walk.
Coke and Pepsi are distinctly different-
but I prefer the former.
Bears and Cubs for life, but
the White Sox don't frost my snow loving heart.
Dragging out vowels and adding l's sneak into my pronunciations-
spelling both bolth-
yet I've sucked in breath
at the utterance of y'all...
with a drawl.
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