Word: givenup
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Dates: during 1995-1995
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Intellectual upheavals are one thing, socialones quite another. My first year at Harvard, Iwas more reckless than ever before in my life. Itook risks without a second thought, some of thememotional ones. Youth had something to do with it,but really I was trying to replace what I'd givenup for lost--a familiar life of assured friendshipand love. And I did it by taking chances, goingout on limb after limb, hedging my bets on wildspeculations, all so that I wouldn't have to facethe changes that were happening. Many times I wasburned, but I never crashed...