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By Jack Joseph Smith

I see that my training in Pittsburgh has been the strongest point I have had holding together my sur- vival. Greentree Road, and later Whiskey Hollow. Mt. Leban (Old Virginia Mannor) and Metzes Field, and Kennedy Forest. Dormont Nursury School, Saint Bernard's, Thorn Hill, Valley Forge, and Kiski briefly before. Ralf Fife, and Mr. Bernardie at Mt. Lebanon. Fay Parker, the Poverty Program, Father Joyce. The Hill District. Birdy at the Hurricane, Martin P. Summerville, Lower Fifth Avenue. And I will find it all out on the journey to the graves of my first parents, and will say that my adopted parents are the reason I am alive, while the challange I undertook of writing would never had been possible without these peo- ple and institutions being in my youthful blood.

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AI Interpretation

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The speaker credits Pittsburgh training, named places and institutions, and adopted parents with survival and the ability to write. The speaker anticipates a journey to the graves of the first parents.

The speaker names people and schools before explaining their place in youthful experience. The speaker distinguishes the first parents from the adopted parents who made continued life possible.

Claude

A typed prose paragraph in which the speaker says his 'training in Pittsburgh has been the / strongest point I have had holding together my sur- / vival', then lists places and people: Greentree Road, Whiskey Hollow, 'Dormont Nursury School', Saint Bernard's, Kiski, Fay Parker, 'the Poverty Program, Father Joyce', 'The Hill District', and 'Birdy at the Hurricane'. He will go 'on the journey to the graves / of my first parents' but names 'my adopted parents' as 'the reason I am alive'.

The page works like an acknowledgments roll, where naming places and people is itself the act of gratitude. Its plain catalogue ends in a clear statement about origins: the first parents are something to seek out, while the adopted parents and the city's 'peo- / ple and institutions' are credited with making both survival and 'the challange I undertook / of writing' possible.