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  • Chapter 38: Going Out on a High Note

    Chapter 38: Going Out on a High Note
    2025/02/10
    Senior year, I made the Dean’s list. I finally became the student my parents and teachers had been telling me I should have been all along. I was loaded up on English and history classes to finish my major and minor and those classes required my two strengths: […]
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    23 分
  • Chapter 37: Bruce and Linda

    Chapter 37: Bruce and Linda
    2024/09/27
    Hampden-Sydney had a great track record of booking musical acts before they burst onto the national scene. One year, the then little-known John Denver played at homecoming. Shortly after, he became the well-known John Denver. The previously well-known Chuck Berry who had large catalog of hits in the […]
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    22 分
  • Chapter 36: The Ezra Show

    Chapter 36: The Ezra Show
    2024/09/26
    As a kid, I dreamed of getting a magic lantern and rubbing it to awaken the genie who could grant my wishes. Not surprisingly, I never got that magic lantern. But when I was 10, I got a magic box. It didn’t come cheap. It cost $10. I […]
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    20 分
  • Chapter 35: I Make the Team

    Chapter 35: I Make the Team
    2024/07/22
    Extracurricular activities had been my thing in high school. Hub of the action, the yearbook proclaimed. I had expected that would be the case in college, too. But, at Northeastern, it didn’t work out that way. There were no sports, clubs or organizations for me. Early on freshman […]
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    22 分
  • Chapter 34: Road Tripping

    Chapter 34: Road Tripping
    2024/07/22
    I was going to turn over a new leaf at my new school. Study first, then socialize. But I couldn’t help myself. During my first semester at Hampden-Sydney, that old leaf stayed put. I had never heard the term “road trip” before I moved south. I had grown […]
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    11 分
  • Chapter 33: Socializing Before Studying … Again

    Chapter 33: Socializing Before Studying … Again
    2024/07/22
    When school started, the fraternities started their pledge drives. All the frat houses were open every night after dinner and you could go by and meet the brothers. I had done this at Northeastern, pretending to be someone else. This time I went as myself. Harv and I […]
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    9 分
  • Chapter 32: Southern Man

    Chapter 32: Southern Man
    2024/07/22
    The city of Boston was so vibrant, its pulse seemed to beckon me every time I stepped outside. That was a problem. I prioritized exploring the city more than exploring my studies. I went to my classes, yes, but rather than going to the library afterwards, I went […]
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    13 分
  • Chapter 28: Working for the Man (And I am the Man)

    Chapter 28: Working for the Man (And I am the Man)
    2024/05/21
    At the end of April and during the first two weeks of May, 1970, my life felt like the crescendo at the end of the Beatles’ song “A Day in the Life” when there is this crazy whirl of noise and music that spirals up in energy, pace […]
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    12 分