I didn’t know it at the time because I hadn’t been able to answer the phone, but I had my PhD. Stitches and all, I was now Dr. Sanford D. Greenberg, the crowning achievement of an educational odyssey that seemed (in my fevered memory) to have endured as many challenges as that famous odyssey chronicled by Homer 2,500 years ago. Far more important to me, I had also found the opportunity along the way to begin reimbursing Arthur for his endless kindness.
