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A memoir Tomorrow I am three-quarters of a century old. Yeah, you heard that right. Seventy-five years old. Can it be? Seems like just yesterday I was messing around in the back yard at Fifteenth Avenue in Marshalltown, Iowa playing with my sister and brother. In honor of this momentous occasion here’s an excerpt from…
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Junior High In Junior High and High School everything changes for me. I‘ve entered the Twilight Zone of disconcerting physical changes and scholastic expectations that I’m not prepared for. In elementary school I was awkward and shy but in Junior High awkwardness takes a quantum leap into the stratosphere. Looks are important. Popularity is important.…