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Love Rhymes, Chapter 7 – iv

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Al

xiv Dear Mike, I’ve been thinking [about you] quite a bit lately, so it seemed time to write. This past week Harvard Med has been announcing interneships. I suddenly realized that you too are about to become a doctor. How … Continue reading →

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Love Rhymes, Chapter 7 – iii

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Al

x 26 December 1972 Dear Mike, I was sitting here at the typewriter, typing applications to graduate school, and decided to try to write you a letter. How are you? How is school and Southern Calif.? Yes, I really am … Continue reading →

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Love Rhymes, Chapter 7 – ii

Posted on December 9, 2020 by Al

v Howard finished law school that spring, then attempted to study for his boards. But over the summer, while he volunteered at the Cambridge law clinic, we involuntarily passed from being occasional companions to true friends. I still saw my … Continue reading →

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Love Rhymes, Chapter 7 – i

Posted on December 8, 2020 by Al

BOOK TWO My school girl diary ends there, so now I rely on what letters and papers I saved, and my increasingly faulty memory A Very Private Poem One summer’s time away she lay with me, and some day hence, … Continue reading →

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Love Rhymes, Chapter 6 – iv

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Al

xiv Friday, the traditional end of a ski week, found us taking the Big Burn lift all the way to the top of the mountain. It was my graduation day, when I would finally stretch my wings away from the … Continue reading →

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Love Rhymes, Chapter 6 – iii

Posted on December 6, 2020 by Al

viii During October, 1969, I felt calmer, more sedate. The campus had settled down, everyone back to work it seemed. The Faculty finally voted to condemn the war. Bev,  Jeanne, and  I found a domestic rhythm at 119 Oxford Street. … Continue reading →

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Love Rhymes, Chapter 6 – ii

Posted on December 5, 2020 by Al

iv A few miles out of town, we meandered up a valley road, then drove along a hillside to a rutted dirt double track. Mike eased the car to a stop at a boxy house covered with vertical honey-colored cedar … Continue reading →

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Love Rhymes, Chapter 6 – i

Posted on December 4, 2020 by Al

CHAPTER SIX If I Could Only Stop My Mind August, 1969 Mike’s parents went out to Snowmass the last two weeks of August to inspect their newly-built retirement cabin, which meant he and I had his house to ourselves when … Continue reading →

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Love Rhymes, Chapter 5 – iii

Posted on December 3, 2020 by Al

viii Mike showed up Friday afternoon, carrying Dylan’s new album, Nashville Skyline. On my little suitcase record player, the understated instruments and Dylan’s softened voice were right at home. “This came out on my birthday. When you told me not … Continue reading →

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Love Rhymes, Chapter 5 – ii

Posted on December 2, 2020 by Al

iv Wednesday was Mike’s birthday. I had planned on calling him that evening, in anticipation of a weekend together in Cambridge. Coming out of psych lab, I daydreamed about what I’d say, what kind of card I’d make for him. … Continue reading →

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