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"My friend Phil turned 84 July 30, 2011, and I want to tell his story—at least as much as I know."

"Having just returned from the Bar Mitzvah of Itai Squires-Kasten, I began thinking about my connection to Itai and his family."

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)

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

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

"One evening, toward the end of August in 1968, I received a call from someone named Stan Weir, explaining that he had just arrived in Washington from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and that a mutual friend gave him my name."

"For some time, as I have been writing these pieces, ideas have been coming to me in the early morning while I am half asleep. The idea that occurred to me this morning was to describe the people and events I can still remember from my time in the…

"It seems I knew Irv forever. "

"Don’t ever mess up. Because if you do, that is all they will talk about when you are gone."

"On December 18, 2007, I turned 80. The thought that has haunted me ever since is, 'Now I am REALLY old.'"