A Legend In His Own Minefield

A Legend In His Own Minefield

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Neither a Cub Scout Nor a Boy

Neither a Cub Scout Nor a Boy

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John Mendelssohn
Apr 03, 2010
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My principal memories from my first couple of years at Loyola Village School, the first elementary school north of Los Angeles International Airport, are of Jan Richter, with whom I was secretly in love in third grade, throwing up all over her own poodle skirt, and with that one act transforming how I felt about her, and my fourth grade teacher, Miss Ga…

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