In 1971, I was a shy eight-year-old who mostly lived in his head. Secrets? Sure, I guess I had them. Forty-plus years later, I can't remember what they would have been, but I'm sure they were of global importance to me as a young boy cloistered in his bedroom in Kittanning, Pennsylvania: desire for the cute girl in the third row in my elementary school classroom, the many hours I stayed up past bedtime reading books by flashlight under the covers, the money I regularly stole...
Published on October 11, 2014 12:52