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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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Tagged being friends, chronic fatigue syndrome, courtly manners, Dennis Prager, dennis prager show, fellow students, hot date, male friend, marathons, napa valley, newcastle ca, overnight trips, rieber hall, scandinavian literature, seventh grade, unmarried man
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You Know What They Say About Sac State?
As I wrote in 2009: Nineteen eighty was a tough year for me. On the afternoon of Yom Kippur 1979, my father delivered a controversial talk before a thousand people at our Seventh-Day Adventist Pacific Union College (PUC) in the … Continue reading
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Tagged foundational doctrine, ministerial credentials, newcastle ca, reo speedwagon, reo speedwagon songs, sac state
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My Crispy Oily Shuvuot Nightmare
For years during my teens and twenties, I used to live at 7955 Bullard Drive in remote and lonely Newcastle, CA, 95658. I just woke up from the following dream: About my present age (45), I was celebrating Shuvuot on … Continue reading
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