Juan Guillen:  

Life is too short ! After so many years of ups and downs,I am finally started opening up a lot. Is not that my life was closed, but I was like in a silence of my own. In high school I only had a couple of friends, in my neighborhood I had a couple of friends also. I lived in a 99.9 % jewish neighborhood, my family at the time were the only spanish people in the block, the streets were crowded with kids playing stick ball, football and roller hockey everyday in the summer months. Summers were really hot in the city those days, that you could fry an egg on the streets of New York city, the winters were severe also, they were so cold that the temperatures at night and sometimes in the day time were below zero. It used to snow a lot those days too, the snow used to cover all the cars, i remember one winter the schools were closed for almost one week because of the snow problem in the whole city, that even people died inside the cars when they got stocked up in the Van wyck expressway in jamaica, queens in the winters of 67, and 68 if i'm not wrong. I remember the kids in my block on Lowe court and 149 street, in Jamaica queens, They would not allowed me to play stick ball with them. I would stand around to be pick for the next game, but they ignored me like i was a ghost, or an invisible person. I never complained, I used to lean over by a car, or seat on the curb on the street and watch them play. They never talked to me, or made faces at me, but they just igno...Expand for more