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World's Apart or Just the Other Side of the Fence?

Sometimes snapshots I take tell a very specific story to me, like a setting for a Hollywood movie. Here, I picture a youth in a poorer Chicago neighborhood looking at the skyscrapers downtown as an outsider. Everyday he looks up to those buildings, but he has never been inside any of them, nor even in the Loop! That's where the other half lives and where commuters from fancy suburbs with college degrees work. That will never be his life. Those buildings are so close in distance yet so far in reach