But I loved the experience of going back into the city. My first day on the train, there were eight seventeen-year-old Catholic girls from Wilmette who attended Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest. After about a week, every time I got on the train, they’d be in the same car waiting for me, and we’d ride together for about a half hour. They adopted me as their mascot. I had a more serious approach to life than most twelve-year-old boys, and I think that helped me connect with them. But I was after all still a twelve-year-old boy, and as you can imagine, their company made
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