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It was the first time events made a difference, the first time I recognized an involvement in what happened beyond the few back yards and playmates that were my universe, the first time anyone said, “You will remember this day forever,” and I believed it.
By David Brendan HopesOctober 1986August 1986The friend does not count his friends on his fingers; they are not numerable.
Thoreau
Two World Wars and the Great Depression, the old Firesign Theater “Everything You Know Is Wrong,” a wet comb
By Our ReadersAugust 1986I may well be wrong in my impression that people exist who have not had to earn their spiritual lives by means of suffering. It is difficult if not impossible to know enough about a person to be able to make such a judgement on such a matter with any certainty.
By Paul GriffithJuly 1986I first met Mataji at the river. I had travelled a long way by bus, boat, and truck. The Middle Eastern countries were hard to travel through. I was pelted with rocks once. Women just don’t travel alone in Muslim areas.
By Marilyn StableinJune 1986You want I should tell you about Abie — he should rest in peace. Sixty years I know him. . . . A long time. . . . The things I could tell you. You know the Freiheit? No? Of course not. By you it means nothing.
By Mark GreensideApril 1986Put the marriage first, resist the marriage trap, marry the right person
By Our ReadersApril 1986The Home for Refined Ladies was an old, turreted, red-brick building converted from a Catholic girls’ academy which had moved to a newer building in a better part of Dubuque, Iowa, up on the hills overlooking the Mississippi.
By Karlton KelmDecember 1985Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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