Word: childhood
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...intend to mislead you. This was not an out-of-the-way excursion for me. For most of my childhood, I lived a mere pumpkin toss away from the woods that the Headless Horseman and other ghosts are rumored to have haunted. I passed through Sleepy Hollow and its brother town, Tarrytown, all the time. Its 7-11 and Baskin Robbins were perfect spots for midnight snacks. I ran cross-country races in some of the town's back woods. I even took my SAT's at Sleepy Hollow High School. But, through all those years, I was entirely unaware...
Aron Natale is the star of the assembled group, the only one of the three who has played all four years. Often labeled as a "quiet All-American", Natale's love of football can be traced to his childhood days in western Pennsylvania where football is life. Natale's father starred as a tight end at Penn State, but to hear Natale tell it, his dad wouldn't let him play for years...
...responsive but confused audience of Wellesley College students then watched Gore and Jones tell tall tales of their childhood...
...classmates in the strongest of tones that it was not the logo for Reebok) and used my pocket money to buy the Economist. I beamed with delight when relatives humorously referred to me as the "English gentleman." The view of the Big Ben stirs emotions rooted in my deepest childhood...
GOING UP IN SMOKE Add one more curse to the experience of a horrible childhood. A study in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association reports that adults who had experienced five or more negative childhood situations--such as abuse, divorce of parents or living with a drunken family member--were more likely to have taken up smoking. They were about five times more likely to have started smoking by age 14 than those with no childhood trauma. That's another good reason to identify and help troubled kids...