Word: summers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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William P. Bohlen '01, a government concentrator in Pforzheimer House, is spending his summer writing for the Washington bureau of the Chicago Tribune...
...little more than two weeks, I will leave my first summer home here in New York to spend the rest of my vacation in Hong Kong. I look forward to the trip not only for the chance to be with my family and to sleep until mid-afternoon; once there, I will also take part in what has become a enjoyable but slightly awkward ritual among me and my Hong Kong friends. Several times a week, I will get together with the dozen or so people who have come for the summer from all over the world...
...grew up and our 24-hour days became shorter, our interests in collecting stamps vanished, as did our commitment to stay in touch. Throughout the last decade, our annual summer get-togethers has served to remind us both of how close we once were and also of how distant we all seem...
Because most of our families still had family or business ties in Hong Kong, it was necessary that we visit the city at least once a year. These trips always took place during the summer, when the children of the families would be out of school. Thus came to be established the annual practice among us friends to gather every summer, as children who followed the adults to the city from which personal or professional obligations still beckon...
During all other seasons of the year, this circle of friends would be almost entirely out of touch, minus the occasional e-mail forward or chain letter. Come summer, however, we would come together most naturally and go to every movie showing in the theaters, have long conversations on the phone, go on crazed shopping trips, plus all the other regular summer bonding experiences. Our times together are always memorable. It was with these friends that we all felt most comfortable, as it was senseless trying to act mature when we were surrounded by people who have seen...