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-Chapter 3-
Mush's POV
I walked out of the manhattan lodging house following the same exact routine I did every morning. Wake up at the crack of dawn, wash and get dressed, walk down to the distribution office, sell papes all day and eat a meal.
Everyday I sold papes, even on Sundays. For as boring as this lifestyle may seem, we do sometimes have things to look forward to. Last summer, of course, was probably the proudest time of my life.
Us, we, the Manhattan newsboys, had done the greatest thing American kids had ever done. The third estate had been recognized by the king of New York City, with the help of know one else but the third estate.
It wouldn't have been possible of course without our leader, Jack Kelly. Jack wouldn't fall to their level. Joseph Pulitzer, the millionaire, decided to cut our profit and Jack persuaded us not to sell papers, an insane thought in my mind at the time.
I was going to die if I didn't sell papes, but yet, we managed. I still don't know how, but we got in the papers, and even made our own paper until the price of newspapers went back to the way it was.
But it never would have happened with just Manhattan, we weren't a union. So we decided to get every single newsboy in all of New York City to join us.
Of course, no one wanted to risk losing their jobs, especially when there was a very slim chance of success. So we went to the most powerful and feared territory in the whole city, and we went to the man in charge of it.
We went to Spot Conlon, the leader of Brooklyn. And, eventually, got him along with the rest of the Brooklyn newsboys to join us. The news spread like wild fire.
As soon as the news got out that Brooklyn had joined the strike, so did everyone else, and we became unstoppable. Manhattan and Brooklyn had become allies through the strike and they have never stopped the policy since.
They had no reason to ignore each other again, if anything, they had a reason to stay allied. And that reason was Red. Red was his younger sister and when Brooklyn and Manhattan joined together last summer, she met him.
Her brother didn't like it at first, but Red can be very convincing, even for only have being sixteen years old. Red is a piece of work. Her brother named her Red because of her eyes. They weren't red to the naked eye, but Red never exactly had a stable temper and when she got angry she only saw red.
But She fell in love with him, instantly, and I don't think they have lived a day without each other ever since.
The three of them, her brother never forgotton in her mind, were like Cleopatra and Ptolemy. A weird combination of siblings and married life, only the marriage part wasn't quite there yet.
Once the two of them had met it was as if the entire city knew the sun was never going to set on their relationship. Through thick or thin, night or day, right or wrong, in sick and in health, until death would they part.
It was just so.
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