“I was a little apprehensive about the whole thing, because I didn’t know him for beans. But Bob brought along a toy billy club and toy handcuffs, so if he got out of control I could straighten him out. That just made me laugh."
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Eleven years ago I conducted my first personal history interview. I’m sorry to say the recording is gone, lost to history. Only the fragments of my memories remain. I was a wannabe radio producer and desperate to join the cool kids at This American Life. To gain interviewing experience I asked a nun named Sister Beth...
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The older boys, if you got a chance to dance with them your heart would pound and pitter patter all over the place - or mine did, 'cause I was a silly, silly teenager.
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