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I didn't grow up blind to Pittsburgh's inequities, however. The night my mother, my two brothers and I arrived in our new hometown I saw a big hole in the ground where the Lower Hill District used to be. The hole was where the now razed Civic Arena would go. The poor people who'd lived there were scattered. Our little broken family moved into the Bedford Dwellings housing projects in the middle Hill District.
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