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My father’s mantra was, “I want ya to be healthy and strong.” More than ever, he wanted me to be athletic. Me! Athletic! Since he’d left, I’d done nothing but accompany my grandmother on errands after school, sit in the sun with her in the park or in front of the bank, and take ballet lessons once a week. In [...]
Sitting in the second row of the balcony at the New York City Center ballet, I, sixteen, entranced by the melodies of Swan Lake, watched a tall, muscular sun-god pirouetting and jeteing on the stage. As he soared, I gasped at the height of his jumps and his sure-footed landings. But I had not come to behold his square shoulders, [...]
With amorous eyes I looked forward to the summer of 1976. Not long out of law school, I had just landed a job with a landlord/tenant law firm in lower Manhattan, and had rented a beach house on Fire Island for the season. I was dating a girl named Elizabeth, and though we had not discussed exclusivity, the times we [...]
