The prospect of attending a gathering of senior citizens whose faces evoke only unpleasant flashbacks from the 1960s seemed like torture to me, writes David McGrath.
After reading the invitation to my Evergreen Park High School reunion, I forwarded it to my wife for laughs, just before deleting it.
Or bullies ceaselessly tormenting freshmen, such as the one who was trashing a poor kid’s locker at the end of the school day. When I tried to step in, the bully challenged me to fight in front of a swelling crowd of onlookers. I had little choice, and the entire blood-lusting horde followed us outside to the CSX railroad tracks, where after one or two wild punches, we ended up in the mud, in a clinch, till we both grunted assent to a draw.
I had equally dreaded seeing these other former classmates, since I was even more puerile at age 14 and 15. I vaguely remember having said and done cruel or ignorant things to people who I prayed would not show up at the hotel. The next morning, I did not change my mind, wishing I had spent more of my life with the convivial, authentic and generous group of classmates from 55 years ago.
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