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Lewiston, Maine, 1960

Preparing to Leave Home

The following is an excerpt of a memoir of my high school years. This is the opening paragraphs of the introduction to the book—the first text you would read. In the summer of 1960 when I was thirteen, my mother drove me into Lewiston to Vincent & Leblanc’s on Lisbon Street at Ash Street. There, in a shopping spree that was unprecedented, she bought me more new clothes than I’d ever had at any one time. Shirts, pants, underwear, socks, even handkerchiefs. The seminary’s list of clothes I was to bring had been very precise—three of these and two of

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