Word: fallingaway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took a taxi to North House, where I lived,because I could not seem to muster the energy towalk. Slowly, over those first few days and weeksat Harvard, I'd felt layers of myself fallingaway, or being stripped aside. Eventually, Ithought, I would be down to nothing, and theprospect of this was frightening. In the chaos offiguring out transfer credits, studying for theQRR, and class shopping, it was easy to ignore thechanges. But that day, I finally realized thetrade-off I'd made in picking Harvard. I'd taken arisk, although it didn't seem so at the time. Andfor...
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