"Little Things Are Big" (L1), by Jesús Colón
“I was thinking; sometimes one thing happens and changes your life, how you look at things and how you look at yourself.
I remember one particular time. It was ...
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"Little Things Are Big" (L1), by Jesús Colón
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"Little Things Are Big" (video and transcript), by Jesús Colón (L2)
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You know, sometimes one thing happens to change our life. How you look at things, how you look at yourself. I remember one particular event. It was when, 1955, '56— a long time ago. Anyway, I'd been working at night. I wrote for the newspaper and, you know, we had deadlines. It was late, after midnight, on the night before Memorial Day. I had to catch a train back to Brooklyn, the West Side IRT.
This lady got onto the subway at 34th Street and Penn Station, a nice-looking white lady in her early 20s. ...
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"Little Things Are Big" (L3, original), by Jesús Colón
It was very late at night on the eve of Memorial Day. She came into the subway at the 34th Street Pennsylvania Station. I am still trying to remember how she managed to push herself in with a baby on her right arm, a valise [suitcase] in her left hand and two children, a boy and girl about three and five years old, trailing after her. She was a nice-looking white lady in her early twenties.
At Nevins Street, Brooklyn, we saw her preparing to get off at the next station—Atlantic Avenue—which happened to be the place where I too had to get off. Just as it was a problem for her to get on, it was going to be a problem for her to get off the subway with two small children to be taken care of, a baby on her right arm, and a medium-sized valise in her left hand.
And there I was, also...
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