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(by a small margin). It also takes the cake for being the most interesting of my homes to that point. I certainly loved 31 Farragut Road, as that is where I watched my children grow and develop in their early years. The new home held different fascinations for me, and it is there that I got the opportunity to experience the supposedly difficult—but, to me, fun— teenage years and much, much more with four out of the five children. (And Danny, who was entering his junior year in college, was hardly out of the picture, as he taught at the Newman School in New Orleans for four years, before he moved to Boston, where he waited tables and did stand-up, and then married, moved to Brooklyn, where he taught at St. Ann’s School, and then moved to Connecticut, where he taught at a start-up school.)
Peter was entering his junior year at the high school and would, while we were at Church Lane South, have his two last years in Scars- dale (in the “A,” for Alternative, School), attend and graduate from Hobart, attend Brandeis through August 1997 as a transition to med school, work in Stratton in the winter, break his clavicle, work in Boston until August 1998, and enter SUNY Stony Brook in 1999.
Dan was entering the eighth grade when we moved in, so our time at Church Lane South saw him attend and finish high school; get into, attend, and graduate from Middlebury; work for two years at GE Capi- tal, living in Stamford; and start his post-baccalaureate, pre-med program at Columbia, while he lived in an apartment in Manhattan.
Rachel, who was two years behind Dan, finished her last two years at Solomon Schechter, attended and graduated from Scarsdale High (also in the “A” school), entered and graduated from Emerson College, worked for a year as a teacher’s assistant in Newton, Massachusetts, and got an apartment in Manhattan, where she lived while she worked at MTV.
David, the youngest, entered the fifth grade at Fox Meadow Ele- mentary School, graduated, spent three years in the Choice program at Scarsdale Junior High, spent four years in Scarsdale High, spent four years at Carleton College, and then worked in Washington, D.C.
While all of this was happening—and “this” entailed countless school applications that Kathy and I had to help with—Kathy and I also
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