Danny, who has three children, Bonnie, 27, Sonny, 24 and Mancie, 12 with wife Wendy, says the weight loss is no silver lining: “In a couple of years I hope to be bulging at the seams again, fat as a house.

The buyer walks past the old men at the lot, the family on the stoop, to the cornerboys, as I thought. One cornerboy takes the buyer aside and palms his cash, the second stands still, watching up and down the block, the third goes to the family on the stoop, has a word with the woman with the baby.

Speak the word, my livelies, and I'll pilot her in.

I had leftovers from yesterday for dinner tonight.