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Slowly, while carefully guarding my secret, I became accustomed to the idea that I would lead my life as a "misfit." By the time I was seventeen, I'd managed to pilfer a few Playgirl magazines to indulge my fantasies, and one day my mother discovered them. My parents were shocked, scared, even ashamed. I was signed up for counseling at the Josephine County Mental Health Program: perhaps it would not be "too late." After three months there I got fed up with being asked to believe that I had talked myself into being gay, when for years...
...maybe. A novel experience. Only thing is, it won't be so novel when the same chimes, gloves, and cows confront you every time you ride the T. These projects, and seventeen others, are scheduled to be installed in Cambridge subways...
...Beverly Sills. It was incredible to see her onstage. Until then, I thought she was just a nice lady who had the lesson before me." One morning Meryl got up, squashed her glasses underfoot, put peroxide and lemon juice on her hair and set out to be "the perfect Seventeen magazine knockout." Boys quickly appeared, and so did a high school teacher determined to build musicals around Meryl's singing. During her freshman year, she made her first appearance onstage as Marian in The Music Man. The young performer was talented but hardly driven. She gave up voice lessons...
...from footing problems on the slick Schoellkopf Astroturf, and a beautiful Lahti to Callinan screen on first and ten from the 20 died when Callinan slipped and fell. A key third and two at Harvard's 32 became disaster when the Crimson clipped and made it a third and seventeen. Lahti's toss for Horner went somewhere into downtown Ithaca, and Millard came in to kick...
...this third novel (after Last Night at the Brain Thieves' Ball and Preservation Hall) Spencer builds a model of emergent love pursued to its obsessive extreme. The author constructs his tale around an apposite metaphor, catastrophic fire. Seventeen-year-old David Axelrod sets some newspapers alight on the porch of his beloved Jade's house after her parents have forbidden him to see her for 30 days. He wishes to attract attention and instead nearly incinerates Jade, her brothers and parents...