"I'm Ray Alcaraz in Little Italy, Baltimore. If you were born and raised here, you're here, this is it, this is you. Little Italy becomes a part of you. And generations are raised here, where if you were within the nine square blocks of Little Italy, you were home, you were safe.

If we were three or four blocks away from home as kids, and got into some sort of trouble, by the time we ran home, our mothers already knew. I still joke with my mother to this day that their system was faster than the Internet.

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Source: http://www.promotioncenterforlittleitaly.org/