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Jody came from Long Island, N.Y. She would return home during the summer to get a taste of the real world, once working on the boardwalk in Wildwood, N.J., living in a two-bedroom apartment with four girls she’d never met (after being told that it sounded like “Jersey Shore,” she says, “That’s exactly what it was. Well, no, except for the guido part. It was actually a bunch of French Canadians, who I don’t want to offend...
...tell me that the best week of their lives was their 25th reunion. I thought, well, you know, I guess I’m going to be let down.” Jim is exuberant and he starts talking quickly. “It was like going to Disney World...
...they’re the Book of Life. They tell all these anecdotes. I’m always exhausted staying up all night reading them.” It’s true: the books hold everything in them about the alumni experience. What it means to find the world. What it feels like to be mediocre, or not. Above all, the process of growing distant...
...dance to her acclaimed song, “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It).” At 7:15 p.m., the mezzanine area reached capacity as 40 women of all ages shook their hips, pointed to their ring fingers, and shouted, in the words of the world-renowned artist, “’Cause if you liked it then you should have put a ring...
Gazing with pride over the expanse of his farm and the llamas that roamed there, Forbes explained that his tours were helping to show the world another way of thinking about open spaces. “We get people from all over the world,” he said. ”We send syrup all over the world too—even to Mozambique...