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the playground where the business is done

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He say he take his self on down to the playground at the Brighton Projects where Roy Tony do business and he go to Roy Tony man to man and he make Roy Tony make it all right.

Context

The supply-side floor the halfway-house world eventually draws from: dealing conducted openly at the Brighton Projects playground, the corner where "business" gets done and where a boy would have to go, man to man, to confront the man who runs it. The scene's terror is domestic and sexual, but its economic substrate is the street trade that later Ennet House residents will have climbed up out of.

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