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"As soon as school ended in June of 1942, I started to look for a summer job."

"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.'"

"In 2009 it will be 60 years since I graduated from City College. Over these six decades, I have bored countless friends and family expressing my debt to my college..."

"This may be a bit premature, but I am writing this as the introduction to the section of my memoirs containing the scores of poems I have written over the years. "

"For some people, their lives would be empty and unfulfilled without music."

Another (later?) draft of #44 Music in My Life

"As I look back over my life, especially my love life, I remember two young women named Bea who played short but memorable parts in my early life."

"In June 1949, I graduated from CCNY, during July and August, I worked as a counselor at Camp CEJWIN, in September, I started taking classes as part of the newly created Master’s in Education program at CCNY, (known as the Free Fifth Year) and I…

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

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