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of reference, I realized I needed fraternity. I realized I needed camaraderie. I realized I needed to be a Whiffenpoof.
Early in my college career, I became disenchanted with the difference between what I needed college to be and what college had actually become. Instead of camaraderie, I received mandates from college administrators who directed me to look at the students to the front, back, and both sides of me, and then realize two of those four students would not survive their first semester of college. Instead of harmonious renderings from a place called Mory’s. I received dire warnings from faculty members who predicted a mass exodus of students from the pre-med curriculum and eventual acceptance of only a few students into medical school. …show more content…

Upon returning to Wilkes-Barre, my father began to see Dr. Devine for his respiratory disorder.
My father's medical condition gradually became more complicated while I was in elementary and high school, but I never really thought of him as a sick man. By the time I entered college, however, his symptoms occurred more frequently, were more incapacitating, and required longer periods of recovery.
On many occasions, Dr. Devine made emergency house calls, and more often than not, urged my father to consent to hospitalization. With each new episode, my father would characteristically thank Dr. Devine for his help and concern, graciously decline the invitation to be hospitalized, and in some way, manage to be back on his feet and working in the shoe shop by the end of the day.
With each succeeding episode, my father became weaker. It was obvious he was no longer capable of working around the clock in the shoe shop as he had done for so many …show more content…

As I completed my latest poem and wondered if anyone else would ever read it, Lori Green quietly entered the back of the classroom and sat down to recover from her own case of self-inflicted heartburn.
Anxious to get her mind off her cooking and curious as to why I was talking to myself, gesticulating, and appearing totally removed from terra firma, Lori approached me. Realizing nothing more serious than poetry was the cause of my aberrant behavior, she introduced herself.
Hearing Lori speak to me was like something from one of my wildest fantasies. Lori was a downright, out-and-out, bona fide vision. She was tall and had long, brown hair. Her dark, wavy hair perfectly accented a pair of deep brown eyes that appeared as magnetic fields from which I knew there would be no escape.
Her voice was as soft as silk, and it seemed to slide through lips that managed to form all the right words in just the right way. She had a body that was perfectly built for comfort, and legs that started somewhere in the stratosphere before subtly working their way back down to

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