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...sense of self to begin with, but it's really just this year that I've started to feel at home at Harvard and at home in myself. Yes, I still have a Boston wardrobe, with more black than any other color. But it includes very little from the Gap these days. (More from Express, in case you were wondering. Incidentally, both stores have branches in Harvard Square, so they, along with Ann Taylor and Urban Outfitters, will be your choices for clothing the next four years.) And it turns out I like going by Elizabeth. Most of my friends...
...decided I was going to be a new, cooler, more outgoing version of me. I would no longer go by Beth, as my high school friends called me--it was on to the sleeker, more sophisticated Elizabeth. My new standard-issue GTE Visa bought me a tastefully simple Gap wardrobe to replace the brighter colors of my more attention-getting high school garb. And I brought absolutely everything I owned to school. Every item of clothing, every photograph, every handy gadget, every poster and wall sign, because the truth is that I was terrified I wouldn...
...chief lesson in all this is: Take it slow. You will find those people and places at Harvard that make you happy. Don't overdo it; just have patience and relax. I wish I'd been able to. Then I'd have less junk e-mail and fewer unworn Gap outfits in the back of my closet...
...only because of the normal distances between fathers and sons but also because his world of preference and pleasure reached into a different America from mine. Father's Day makes one aware that fathers and children are separated by cultures, even when biology seeks to narrow the gap. The worlds in which fathers live carry parts of their existence, and our affection does not always distinguish between the man and the matter...
...Style Gap...