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A Kid’ll Eat Ivy Too

Joe Dolce

Apr 01 2011

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we were Dolce pronounced doltz

     to blend in

better with non-Italians in our small Ohio town

 

mares eat oats and does eat doltz and little lambs eat ivy classmates used to tease

but at college I became dolcháy

precisely in order

to blend out

 

infrequent time travel trips to visit family

devolve me occasionally back into doltz

for wrinkle-free camouflage

 


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Joe Dolce

Joe Dolce

Contributing Editor, Film

Joe Dolce

Contributing Editor, Film

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