Word: stacey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time, and I had traveled to Siegel's Deli as part of a caravan of cars, a convoy of approximately a dozen hungry Jews. After gorging on scrumptious red meat, we returned to our vehicles for the drive back home. It was determined that I would ride with Stacey, a pregnant 26-year-old, whose husband had not joined us all on this particular outing. At the time, I was preoccupied with the tricky quandary of whether my girlfriend and I should stay together when we took off for college...
...somewhere around mile-marker 128 of Interstate 10 in southern Arizona, Stacey imparted what many believe to be the fundamental, gospel truth about love at the turn of the 21st century: It is radically contingent...
...Stacey explained that while she was extremely happy in her marriage, there was nothing unique about her husband. In fact, she confided, there were at least three or four different men over the course of her life that she probably could have happily married, if only she had met them during the appropriate stage of life. I was confounded. I had always believed that there was something cosmically singular about one's life partner. Stacey was suggesting that romantic fate had less to do with the dictates of Venus and more to do with one's academic or employment status...
...time I arrived at Harvard, my girlfriend and I had parted ways, and I rationalized the split in accordance with Stacey's theory. High school was not the appropriate stage of life to meet one's future spouse. But, I happily decided, college certainly was. After all, my parents had met in college, as had many of my friends' parents. I resolved that my future bride must be somewhere amongst those mobs of people moving into the Yard. Two-and-a-half years later, I must report that I was sorely mistaken. Of course, retrospectively I shouldn...
Given the letter of stacey J. Mullin (Letters, April 14) decrying me for my thoughtless quote, I would like to clarify what I said. When I referred to all of "these pathetic people who took math competitions in high school," I was referring to people like myself, who nostalgize about them endlessly...