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

"Lenny Rubin was the first friend I made after entering City College in September 1945."

"I feel that I have known Irving Howe all my life, although I may have been in the same room with him five times and exchanged no more than a few sentences with him each time."

"I have known Alex Roth for more than 75 years, since the mid 30s."

"It has been several years (5, 10, more?) that Alex seems to question almost every suggestion made with regard to ROL."

"These days, the high point of my year is when I get together with my friends from Reading Out Loud (ROL)."

"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…

"I saw Arthur on March 25, 2012, when I was visiting my daughter and her family in San Francisco."

"A couple of weeks ago, I was browsing the bookshelves of the Brookline Public Library and came across a book called 'Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War.'"

"I first met David when Fran and I married in 1981, and I was amazed that we had not met before."