A Ragtag Crew of Neighborhood Kids

In the 70s and 80s, the kids in my neighborhood were a hodgepodge of characters. A motley crew of sorts, for the most part we ordinarily would have never chosen each other as friends. Life made that decision for us—members selected purely out of circumstance and proximity. Our jumble banded together day in and day out, traipsing around as a singular unit, until our mothers stepped out their back doors to holler for our return home.