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Conscious unconscious ? Smitty ran away from home. So with my mother's permission of course she let him stay in our upstairs room on the island with a phone call to his parents I'm sure. Well it just so happened that my mother was at work and the grandparents with their derelict son my father came out from Chicago and began various dissertations on the evils of everyone but themselves, especially that Smitty boy, and I neglected to tell them that Smitty was upstairs listening - the big mouth - all over town. I was radical even then.
But it happened to me sometime earlier as well as I was about to knock at Smitty's back door, I heard his parents tell him not to hang around with that bad kid - meaning me. I never quite forgave them because it was their precious one with all the outrageous ideas not me.
Smitty and the band were headed for notoriety calling themselves the Galaxies. They hired a lead singer whose girl friend was married to a big-time radio rock and roll disk jockey in Chicago. He was going to put them on TV but alas - just before the big event the band self destructed by internal altercation and disbanded. Smitty fell in love with a local girl, got married and lived the life of a family man for love. And he played charity for jail prisoners I heard the Blues Brothers.
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