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...encompassed him as a child. Growing up in an atmosphere in which affection and respect were plentiful, where the discipline was fair and loving, and the opportunities for self-expression were abundant, he came to trust that the world was basically a friendly and agreeable place. After schooling at Groton, Harvard and Columbia, he practiced law for a short period and then entered what would become his lifelong profession: politics. He won a seat in the New York State senate, became an Assistant Secretary in the Navy Department and ran as the vice-presidential candidate on the Democratic Party...
...story of the accomplished Boston native, a senior at The Groton School, first broke in yesterday's Boston Globe...
...asked her if she knew anything about the New Age guru Mark had followed to Ayer. She said that her name was Joyce and she lived in Groton, Massachusetts. She hadn't heard anything about my uncle's health food store job, but she happened to know that there was but one health food store in Groton, and that it was on the main street...
...large. (My uncle's old roommate hadn't known her last name.) I think she might do acupressure, I explained. No response. What about this man? I continued, again flashing my picture. Still no recognition, though they did direct me to an acupuncture clinic down the street--in staid Groton, of all places...
Mark, it turned out, was living in Groton. We found his road--after a while. After another while, we found the unpaved turnoff--and the muddy turnoff off of that leading to his house. I knocked on the door. "Who are you?" a woman asked me. "Mark's niece," I said. "Who are you?" "I'm Joyce," she said. "Mark lives downstairs...