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My One And Only

I used to talk a big game when I lived at Rieber Hall at UCLA in 1988-89. I was on a special self-selected quiet floor for serious students. I was working on this explicit novel. I met a Chinese girl … Continue reading

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UCLA Football Gets Its First Win Over Nebraska Since September 10, 1988

The UCLA Bruins football team shocked Nebraska tonight 36-30. It was their first victory over the Cornhuskers since September 10, 1988. I was at that 1988 game. It was my first big UCLA event, and it came just a couple … Continue reading

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Contempt For The Athletes

When I was at UCLA in 1988-1989, I was friends with a distinguished member of the faculty who had utter contempt for the school’s black athletes who couldn’t make the grade academically. He’d set them up for tricks with rich … Continue reading

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Professor Jules Lambert Zentner – My Best Friend During My Darkest Years

When I ran marathons in seventh grade, I would drive to them with a bachelor professor in his thirties. He may have been the first in my life-long string of substitute father figures. I’d usually meet him around 4 a.m. … Continue reading

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The Smelly Building At UCLA

So in 1989, this cute chick takes me through a small building at UCLA (near the University Research Library) that I had never been in before. When we came out, I said, “What was that place? I have never been … Continue reading

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