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...Josh is astute enough to understand that his bar mitzvah was more a ceremonial aspiration than a sudden transformation. Between childhood and adulthood lies the ridiculous and treacherous territory of adolescence. It is a region full of dangers, brainless impulses, hormonal furies. And it must be crossed...
...Josh has just successfully passed one milestone in the process: his freshman year of high school. His still boyish face is framed by a square- edged haircut. Josh has always been small for his age. That bothers him but does not slow him down. Barely 5 ft. tall, he competes in a sport of giants: his ambidextrous dribbling helped him become starting point guard on the ninth-grade basketball team at Belmont High School in suburban Boston...
Childhood has not been an easy path for Josh. He will never forget the night nearly nine years ago when his parents told him they were divorcing. "My sister Dana and I really liked watching the TV show Mork and Mindy, so my parents decided to tell us right before the show so we could watch it afterward," he says. "I don't think we ever got around to watching it. I just remember crying...
...grew older, Josh's pain subsided, but he knew that his life would never be the same again. "It just takes time," he says. Time, and a sense that he was not going through this alone. "A couple of years later, my best friend's parents got divorced. Then a lot of other kids' parents got divorced. I guess when it happened to me, it was just starting." When asked about his greatest worry as a child, Josh replied, somewhat absently, "War. It's scary to think what could happen." But at the mention of his parents' divorce, Josh adds...
...parents Sandy and Mary Lou Maisel were college sweethearts when they were married at 21. They were divorced when Josh was six. Sandy Maisel, 42, is a professor of government who recently finished one year of teaching at Harvard. Usually Sandy teaches at Colby College in Waterville, where Josh was raised. Sandy took over full-time custody of Josh and his older sister Dana, now 16, after the divorce. On certain weekends and selected holidays, Josh and Dana spend time with their mother, who runs a management-consulting business in southern Maine...