Like a genie out of the bottle, our minds have expanded way beyond our youthful imaginings because we have gone through enough obstacle courses to harden and wisen us, and enough triumphs to make us kind and gracious.
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Years of cultural brainwashing on how a male should act had robbed him of the wherewithal to give his sons the tenderness that his mother provided him.
Read MoreOne good thing about having lived out most of one's life is that one has a past to look back to – a past that can be as colorful or as grim as one wants it to be, a past that can be mined (read: revised or embellished) for stories to tell the grandchildren.
Read MoreThe routine of your life with your family and high school buddies, the familiarity of your hometown, even the weather that your body is used to – all assume a dimension in your mind that wasn’t there before, not when your fantasies of living a bigger, freer life in a bigger universe filled your thoughts and prodded you to choose a college far away.
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