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"How do you like
living in the West
End?"
"Yeah, it's decent.
It's more about how
it's portrayed. Then
again, people can't
make up something
they haven't seen.
If it wasn't bad, it
wouldn't have bad
reports. There is
crime everywhere
though, honestly."
"Two years. It's a nice
summer job. I used to
come here and swim a
lot, but now I work in
the concession stand,
just like all my other
fve siblings have."
"I lifeguarded. I
was a competitive
swimmer."
"How long have you
worked here?"
"Thirty-one years.
Yes, I'm a lifer. I have
staff that work for me
now whose parents
worked for me in
the '80s, and their
grandparents worked
here in the '50s."
"I want to be a
zookeeper."
"What will the best
part be?"
"Taking care of the
animals. If I could
have a zoo animal as
a pet, I would have
a tiger, but, yeah, I
would have to keep
it in a cage. I'd feed
it meat. They are
meat-eaters."
"No old-lady-
swimming-suit pictures
in the paper."
"You shouldn't have
said that. You know
that's what she's going
to put. Well, go on
then: Show a little leg."
"So if you don't get into
the NBA, what do you
want to do?"
"I don't know. I haven't
thought about that yet."