Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friends I've ever had. We were a crew to reckon with, Meecissi, Monica, Hanukkah and me, Mica. Together, we lived under the dining room table. Of course, I also had a bedroom. This is how I learned to inhabit two places at once. Later, when I reached the Age of Math Class, I found this skill invaluable. While my eyes never left Miss Robinson's face, I was quite decidedly somewhere else. But after many years of such duality, not to mention of crumbs in my pajamas and an idea that a fraction's denominator was utterly superfluous...
...when I turned ten a funny thing happened: I started desiring to be younger (a much more problematic thing from the point of view of theoretical physics). Even at that age I instinctively disliked exchanging the vastness of the possible for the narrowness of the concrete. I wanted to remain forever at an age when I could still believe that I might grow up to be a professor, a firefighter, a musician or a carpenter. Furthermore, the scatological humor, casual cruelty and intellectual indifference of my own peers troubled...
Being a little older and a little wiser, this time around I did not attempt time travel. I opted instead for idolizing adulthood, making it out to be the opposite of everything I disliked in those my own age. To me all adults were kindly creatures who cared nothing for the vile pursuits of popularity and appearance and who worried only about truly important things. They read "The Economist", knew all about electronics and conversed about biology and classical history. I thought I saw in adults the self-control, compassion and intellectual commitment that I missed in my peers...
...decided I wanted to be a ten-year old adult. My father still laughs when he tells the story of how an old friend (exactly my same age, down to the day) came over to play while the rest of the family was absent. I played a recording of Handel's Watermusic and tried to explain to him what I had recently read about the structure of the atom. He never showed up again...
McNamara said HUPD has refined its description of the suspect and is seeking a 5-foot 10-inch light-skinned black male between 18 and 22 years old. Past descriptions had only referred to the Thayer burglary and omitted the suspect's age...