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My mother and Tom’s mother were friends back in the 1940s, when the Magill family lived on Notre Dame Avenue and the Carlins lived a few minutes walk away on Beverage Hill Avenue. That’s how Tom and I first became friends.
Tom, who had a paper route out of Joe Griffith’s garage on Prospect Street, got me a paper route too in my junior high school years.
During those early teen years our friendship was interrupted by a fistfight we had. I don’t know what the cause was;...
David Carlin
October 28, 2025 | Newport, RI | Friend


