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Clearly the store has found success. Over its 21 years it has expanded to occupy three storefronts, a store size almost unheard of for a mom & pop in metro Boston. Cheeses and meats occupy one room; the bakery and most of the store's canned, bottled and boxed goods the center room; vegetables, fruits and flowers the third...
...they wanted to know what it felt like to be on the first trio, all they need do is ask at a family reunion. The Demarcos, who played together for Michigan State in 1969-70, are cousins of their mom, Anna...
...Mom always told you to eat your vegetables...
Jonathan's mom Robin Norice, 38, an IRS tax examiner, has had her son in the program since the fourth grade because, she says, "I want him to have the same educational experience as whites"--one of higher quality than he would get in the inner city. Jonathan's neighborhood friends often taunt him for being too good to simply walk the six blocks to Roosevelt High. But "all they do there is fight every day," he says. "You've got to worry about the gangs and what color you're wearing." He appreciates Webster's relative safety...
...Jonathan is a slacker; at home he cleans, cooks and takes care of his three younger siblings when his mom and stepdad are working. During Jonathan's freshman and sophomore years, Norice says, "he was playing football and basketball, was in show choir and concert choir, rehearsing for a play and working part time stripping furniture. He was overwhelmed. The commute was wearing him down. But he's cut his schedule down, and is really doing better...