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"Skimming a review in the New Yorker of Elizabeth Gilbert’s book 'Committed,' about her marriage, got me to thinking (again) about mine."

Further condensed/revised version of "Junior High School: My Most Favorite Educational Experience
(And My Longest Memoir)" (2011) and "Junior High School: My Favorite Educational Experience" (2011/2012)

"It is mid-December, 2011, and for the past month I have been reliving my life in junior high school."

"It seems I knew Irv forever. "

"My cousin Rozzie is 3 ½ years younger than me."

"I always liked getting a haircut."

"Now that I have cable TV, I am able to see a movie 'at any time of the day or night.'"

"Whenever I begin to write a new piece, my tendency is to do it chronologically." (Fragment)

"As if I had nothing better to do in the spring and summer of 1953, I found myself in a legal battle with my landlord."

"I always liked the line from Moliere’s Bourgois Gentilhomme (?) where he discovers that he is speaking prose. This came to mind as David is working on a paper about Jews and blacks and Italians in New York and other urban centers. What David is…