Three flats stacked one on another in Dorchester, each with its porch — the Doyles on the second floor from 1955 to 2001, cousins above, a family from Cape Verde below who became family too.
What it was like
Conversations happened porch to porch. The back stairs were the real front door.
Who lived there
[[doyle-bridget|Bridget]] and [[doyle-michael|Michael]], second floor
Six children in two bedrooms
Cousins upstairs, friends downstairs