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Zinski t1_ivacsoo wrote

Reply to comment by xenolingual in Does anyone know the curly haired Spanish kid that always walks around main south? by [deleted]

It almost feels AI generated

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New-Vegetable-1274 t1_ivb01nt wrote

Yeah, it's a little different but when I was a kid in Main South it was a smaller place. There was a community then, you didn't know everyone but some stood out and their absence would be noticed. Caring about total strangers is a very human thing and I think we've lost a lot of that. There must have been something about this kid that people noticed.

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MindlessTrendSetter t1_ivbedpn wrote

Yeah I totally understand what you mean by main south being a community back then. Ever since Worcester started getting bigger and busier I feel like people stopped caring about others the way they did. A lot of people thought this kid was a junkie or in a gang but from what I know he was just going through some shit. Probably had mental issues or something similar, you would always see him around main south during the day and walking around by night and some people would just assume he was homeless or a crackhead. I managed to talk to the kid once when I saw him working at the Target on Lincoln Street, I didn't get his name but he seemed like good people. That was a while back though and I haven't seen him anywhere since. I just hope he's doing okay.

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New-Vegetable-1274 t1_ivbmyof wrote

I'm a lot older than most people on Woo Reddit and haven't lived in Worcester for a long time but am sentimentally connected. I'm probably the polar opposite on most issues discussed but still enjoy the Worcester news. My memories go back quite a bit and Worcester has always had these people who stand out for one reason or another. Many of them became urban legends of sorts and you could write a book about the stories that made them legends. Each story had a life of it's own and was embellished a little with each telling. So however humble, these folks all had their fifteen minutes of fame and you're not fully dead when someone still remembers you.

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madhatmatt2 t1_ivbfkdu wrote

I don’t know if they’ll allow it but if you are really dead set on finding him I would look at that as a lead and go to the target and try and ask employees or something idk you probably won’t get any information but it’s a lead.

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